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Originally Posted by Derbyroy
...it was delivered to and collected from trains en route, by Royal mail vehicles, how ever other parcels /freight were the responibilty of the railways until it was delivered,
with the onset of too much road freight space being available, the railways were unable to survive.
road became the new modern way, and we started getting our mail 2 days after posting instead of one ...need I say more ???
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That put pressure on the railway certainly but the nail in the coffin was actually Railtrack who failed the railway as a whole, and suddenly threw down 20mph restrictions all over the country, following Hatfield, because work was overdue.