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rsr[25] - seats aplenty

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:57:56 +0000

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A selection of benches [as the red doors lead out onto the platform, I wonder if these go outside during train operating days ?] backing onto the TPO.

rsr[25] - TPO sorting van

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:55:26 +0000

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This bright red carriage is BR 80377, a Travelling Post Office [TPO] sorting van.
Built at York in 1972
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cs.rhrp.org.uk/CarriageSurvey/displaycarriage.php?Ref=S0L6BUY9DZGW8KTJ3Q7O

I refer you to the short film "Night Mail" from 1936 for an illustration of the process ...
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-night-mail-1936-online

svr(eh)[22] - packet

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:08:27 +0000

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That address made me smile - my late father did his apprenticeship at Hunslets, a few years before the start of WW2.

svr(eh)[22] / gpo[22] - TPO ; interior of 80300

nobody@ipernity.com (StoneRoad2013) — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:08:19 +0000

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TPO letter sorting racks [the steps are for youngsters, like the group that have just left]
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TPO was a Travelling Post Office, used by the Royal Mail staff to sort letters and small packets whilst in transit between major towns and cities. Included picking up and setting down mail bags when on the move.
See also the short film "Night Mail" and the eponymous W.H.Auden poem ...