Ah that explains things. Halebank troughs are the ones you are on about. Dont think I have a photo but will check.
Mike
Ah that explains things. Halebank troughs are the ones you are on about. Dont think I have a photo but will check.
Mike
Ah, thank you.Originally Posted by mikewturner
I was trying to imagine what services and locos used the troughs in their heyday. They must have been used during the war, or they would not have survived it. Troop trains to Liverpool from all over perhaps.
But we forget how different things were.
I recently watched, once again, the iconic 1936 GPO film "The Night Mail" of the LMS down postal ("it is an express but it carries no passengers") that "leaves Euston at 8:30pm every day except Saturdays". But I was shocked to realise that, at that time, there were only two scheduled West-coast through services per day from Glasgow to London.
Plus lots and lots of excursions and specials, mostly for sporting events.
Today of course it is quite the converse, lots of regular services but few specials. It wondered whether there still any TPOs that do mail snatching on the fly? Great stuff for trains sets for young boys (of all ages ;-)
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