London Post Office Railway 1930 Stock
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London Post Office Railway
The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless private underground railway in London built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to move mail between sorting offices...
1930 Stock and 1936 Stock was built by English Electric
English Electric
English Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...
. These units comprised the bulk of the fleet from the 1930s until the introduction of the 1980 Stock
London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock
The London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock was built by Hunslet in Leeds between 1980 and 1982. The units were originally ordered from Greenbat, but this company went into administration after building just three sets...
. The articulated units were designed to replace the earlier unsuccessful 1927 Stock
London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock
The London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock was built by English Electric in 1927. Ninety of these four-wheeled units were built as the first stock used on the system....
, which were prone to derailments.
An initial 50 units were ordered, being built in two batches from 1930–1931. They reused electrical equipment from withdrawn 1927 Stock
London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock
The London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock was built by English Electric in 1927. Ninety of these four-wheeled units were built as the first stock used on the system....
units. Due to an increase in traffic levels, ten further units were built in 1936. The numbering details of units is shown in the table below:
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After the introduction of the 1980 Stock
London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock
The London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock was built by Hunslet in Leeds between 1980 and 1982. The units were originally ordered from Greenbat, but this company went into administration after building just three sets...
, some units were retained, being renumbered into the range 35–51 in 1984. All remaining units were withdrawn in 2003 when the system closed.
Several units have been preserved, all of which are from the second batch of 1930 Stock. These are listed below:
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