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NSW Mail Trains

On reading the preamble relating to ‘Trains Worth Modelling, NSW Mail Trains’ on page 52 of the August issue of the magazine, I note mail trains described as being effectively ‘mixed trains’ with lots of shunting enroute and at terminal stations. In my many years of experience as an officer with the NSWGR, mail trains did not, and were not tabled to, shunt at intermediate stations enroute or at terminal stations. They could not be described as being a mixed train. Shunting at terminal stations, when required, was done by a yard shunting engine. The consists of both trains and operations were different. Mail trains conveyed passengers, mail and parcels traffic, never goods traffic. Bogie wheeled vehicles were at times in a mail train consist, but conveyed either parcels or mail traffic. Mixed trains conveyed both passenger, goods and livestock traffic and shunted intermediate stations and sidings where and as required. There was a vast difference in the consists and working of both trains.

Victor Underwood Constitution Hill NSW

The good the bad and the ugly, AMRM feedback… In-depth articles

I saw your request for feedback in the October edition of Australian Model Railway Magazine and thought it would be prudent to relay my recent AMRM experience.

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