royal mail railway sorting coach

[STANIER5]

ROYAL MAIL COACH NTA 80434 any info please

 

[sprinterguy]

Depends what you'd like to know:

Mark 1 Post Office Stowage Van, converted at York in 1976 from Corridor Second 25119 (Built Wolverton, 1956). One of a batch of nine similar conversions undertaken at that time.

Into traffic July 1976, sold for preservation in November 2003 and moved, I think, to the Gloucestershire-Warwickshire Railway. Noted there in 2013 and 2015, and then seen on the back of a low loader, without it's B5 bogies, at a Wishaw haulage yard in September 2017, en route to the Vale of Berkeley Railway where I believe it still resides, additional similar vehicles having moved there last year.

 

[twpsaesneg]

I may have posted a letter in it in around 1990

 

[Otis]

One source has it listed as being at Berkeley Science Park and noted present in August 2023

This is the closest thing I can find to a coach on aerial photographs - but it may or may not be 80434

 

[Rover]

20/8/82 1S72 22:30 London King's Cross-Edinburgh
E4519-E4868-E26213-E24910-E16020-M5248-E80832-E80336-E80322-E80319-E80434

25/3/83 1A40 21:00 Newcastle-London King's Cross
W80670-E80364-E80349-E80320-E80337-E80434-E80422-E80834-E4279-E4451-E4859-E4454

21/6/85 1A40 20:54 Newcastle-London King's Cross
E92129-E5142-E5144-E5130-E80323-E80319-E80420-E80351-E80434-E84212

30/5/86 1M59 20:22 Newcastle-London St.Pancras
M80730-E80824-SC84240-E80337-E80432-E80336-E80320-E80434-E80365-W84084

 

[Dr Hoo]

So was it a sorting vehicle (aka ‘Travelling Post Office’) as per the thread title or a stowage vehicle (for sealed mailbags)?

 

[D6130]

I may have posted a letter in it in around 1990

IIRC, the public letter boxes were only to be found in the postal sorting vans and not in the stowage vans, which alternated with them in most Travelling Post Office formations.

 

[Sun Chariot]

So was it a sorting vehicle (aka ‘Travelling Post Office’) as per the thread title or a stowage vehicle (for sealed mailbags)?

804xx definitely a stowage van (no sorting racks) type NTX (POT).
The ambiguity of the opening post, plus absence of a follow-up post from the OP, makes me think this thread is "ghosted".

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IIRC, the public letter boxes were only to be found in the postal sorting vans and not in the stowage vans, which alternated with them in most Travelling Post Office formations.

You've got me sifting t'interweb now
Here are two POTs and a BPOT with posting box:

BR MK 1 TPO POT Stowage Van BR BLUE & GREY - JDM Models

www.jdmmodels.co.uk

BACHMANN 39-750 BR MK1 TPO POT STOWAGE VAN post Office Red with EWS Branding - JDM Models

British Railways Mk1 coaches BR Mark 1 coaching stock was the first standardised design of railway carriages built by British Railways (BR) post-nationalisation in 1948, the family of locomotive hauled passenger coaches being constructed from 1951 until 1963 to augment and replace the array of...

www.jdmmodels.co.uk

http://www.eastbank.org.uk/images/Coaches/UK1848.jpg

 

[D6130]

You've got me sifting t'interweb now
Here are two POTs and a BPOT with posting box:

I obviously DRC* then!

(* Don't remember correctly!)

 

[Sun Chariot]

I obviously DRC* then!

(* Don't remember correctly!)

Double edged sword - it prompted me to dig out my copy of "An Illustrated Hustory of the Travelling Post Office" (by Peter Johnson) - and now I'm looking at my four Bachy TPO sorting vans and 4 packs of Hurst brass overlays and thinking: "time for some modelling"....

 

[Sun Chariot]

@STANIER5 Two months have passed since your ambiguous opening post. You've not checked back in, nor acknowledged any of the information provided to you by others.
I therefore presume your thread is "ghosted" and so it can be closed.