05-14-2011, 11:26 AM
Hi Rob,
Did a bit more reading in Ian Wilson's Steam Over Palmerston this morning, and there are many references to mixed trains in the 1940s and 1950s. In the Kincardine Sub chapter, there are pictures and text about M331/332, the Kincardine Mixed. In the colour section of the book, there are pictures and references to the Durham Mixed.
Ian also describes the increase in mixed trains following the "curtailment" of way freight (presumably meaning way freight on its own). Several of the pictures show RPO cars as the baggage car, as the mail contract was ended in the Fall of 1956.
There is at least one picture that shows a standard 40' steel boxcar being used as an express baggage car - so that the passenger train actually has the appearance of a mixed train - although there are several passenger cars, not just one or two.
Note that none of the pictures of mixed trains shows a van on the end.
Steam Over Palmerston is sold out, but Steam Memories of Lindsay might give you the same sort of information.
Andrew
Did a bit more reading in Ian Wilson's Steam Over Palmerston this morning, and there are many references to mixed trains in the 1940s and 1950s. In the Kincardine Sub chapter, there are pictures and text about M331/332, the Kincardine Mixed. In the colour section of the book, there are pictures and references to the Durham Mixed.
Ian also describes the increase in mixed trains following the "curtailment" of way freight (presumably meaning way freight on its own). Several of the pictures show RPO cars as the baggage car, as the mail contract was ended in the Fall of 1956.
There is at least one picture that shows a standard 40' steel boxcar being used as an express baggage car - so that the passenger train actually has the appearance of a mixed train - although there are several passenger cars, not just one or two.
Note that none of the pictures of mixed trains shows a van on the end.
Steam Over Palmerston is sold out, but Steam Memories of Lindsay might give you the same sort of information.
Andrew