The Day When Royal Mail Wasted Millions On A Train

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@RobinHullBuilds Ай бұрын

I worked in The Post Office Corporation Public Affairs team during the 1990’s. Part of my role was planning events for the opening of the new hubs. The excitement within TPO and Royal Mail was real. Before I left in 2000, we were already experiencing major problems with EWS. Punctuality and failures to meet schedules was becoming a real issue. I think the budget for Railnet was nearly £300 million, not £150 million, but it was a long time ago 🤷🏻‍♂️ A side note: during the lead up to Railnet going operational, my boss had written an explanatory leaflet aimed at telling the public and opinion formers the wonderful news that we were moving from a road operation to an environmentally friendly rail based service, yippee! The leaflet would be available in the post office network, doctors surgeries, citizens advice bureaux etc., twenty million leaflets had been printed. A small box arrived from our printers with a couple of hundred advanced copies. Eagerly I opened the box and read the leaflet. You have to bear in mind that my boss, the Head of Public Affairs and the various department heads, including the transport director at Royal Mail had all approved the leaflet. There on page one was our exciting news: Royal Mail are excited to announce Railnet. We will be moving our bulk mail operation from rail to road…. I read it again. “Erm boss, aren’t we moving from road to rail…?” We pulped twenty million leaflets and decided against a reprint!

@Spermwhales93 Ай бұрын

This is the most "run by the British government" story I have ever seen in my life.

@JMR0303 Ай бұрын

Well, this certainly isn’t the kind of video I expected from a channel called “FnafFan Productions”.

@FnafFanProductions Ай бұрын

I actually rarely produce any FNaF related stuff nowadays regardless of my channel name. But I don't really care, I like to just make whatever I want to make ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@domhuj Ай бұрын

this is NOT what i expected with the kinemaster logo in the top right

@memediatek Ай бұрын

@@domhujdont diss my kinemaster innit

@dv64mlomilo16 Ай бұрын

Loved this, and almost lost it when you used Massa as an outro 😎 . Top work buddy 👍

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Ай бұрын

The US had mail trains until the 1970s, and they were discontinued for similar political reasons. The reason that mail trains were discontinued in the US had nothing to do with trains being slower or "obsolete" as mail by train in many cases was more efficent than trucking and flying. By having the railway post office car be on a fast passenger train or just a fast mail train, it was possible to drop off and pick up mail nonstop at speeds as high as 80-90mph on some railroads. This was done via a catcher post on a mail crane along the line, which the train would pick up while moving, and the mail to be dropped off would be thrown off. (It was for letters and newspapers only) As a result, mail could be delivered quickly, espically on trains like the 20th Century Limited which ran from Chicago to New York in 16 hours. This system was only discontinued in the 1960s-1970s as the airline and trucking industries lobbied for the mail contracts that railroads had - resulting in the US government taking away the mail contracts from railroads.

@the_vehicle_spotter Ай бұрын

In Sweden we also have mail trains which i would say are pretty good and reliable. They use some old Rc4p locomotives which have been modified to accommodate speeds of 160km/h and some modified post wagons that can also reach 160km/h. Making it one if the fastest freight trains😄

@andrewlong6438 Ай бұрын

Another problem is the long term reduction of post being carried by Royal Mail caused by the uptake of email and the web. If Royal Mail or it’s competitors could be persuaded to carry parcels by train from the major depots to regional centres then there may be a future. Trouble is there is too much romance with the days of the post train and blaming privatisation whereas it’s probably down to how we communicate.

@mx338 Ай бұрын

In Germany, DHL, our biggest parcel carrier, started up large scale rail parcel services again a few years ago and so far it has been very successful, but they simply use containers.

@ChaoDee Ай бұрын

this is the best video I've ever seen made on Kinemaster, period.

@RustonProductions-AVRE Ай бұрын

Train is love, train is life, unless its a fucking pacer

@TrainPlaneFan123 Ай бұрын

pacers = trash

@thisis_mudchute Ай бұрын

pacer > 150

@ARLE3 Ай бұрын

agreed.

@Thatclass43fanoffical Ай бұрын

@@thisis_mudchuteswallow glass

@taro9921 Ай бұрын

impeccably good video for such a small fnaf(???) channel. splendid shit mate

@thingsandmorethings Ай бұрын

Are the 325s technically a massive waste? Yes. Are they cool? Also yes.

@bfapple Ай бұрын

Did Royal Mail waste years of Network Rail money to prepare an ETCS installation and then cancel the project with a moment’s notice? Yes.

@Trucker_Space_Guy Ай бұрын

For something made in Kinemaster and something not like CapCut, its very intresting and well made. Tho the only problem is the watermark. Still something great and well made.

@SeverityOne Ай бұрын

Until about ten years ago, the French used dedicated yellow TGVs for mail service...

@bobbysenterprises3220 Ай бұрын

I just got to walk through an original US mail car at steamtown. Complete with the sorting setup inside it not sure the eara. But had to be older than the 50s.

@danielscotcher Ай бұрын

Awesome video thank you

@domtweed7323 Ай бұрын

Mail trains make a lot of sense for parcels: Less energy use, less carbon emissions, and less vulnerable to bad weather.

@roadie4360 Ай бұрын

But the rail network is not resilient in bad weather, you still require lorries when the railway is shut and for shipping to the rail heads.

@domtweed7323 Ай бұрын

@roadie4360 But unlike the sky, the rail network is fixable. With a bit more tree trimming, and some embankment reinforcement, it could be made resistant. Landing a plane in strong winds is a much more difficult engineering challenge.

@MyUnoriginalUsername Ай бұрын

Problem is when the WCML has maintenance work or signal failures,

@domtweed7323 Ай бұрын

@MyUnoriginalUsername Yeah. One of Beeching's great crimes was to remove redundancy from the network. It would be really useful to have a few more underutilized branch lines on which to reroute trains during maintenance

@AnimGMD Ай бұрын

great video

@FnafFanProductions Ай бұрын

Thank you

@dfwrider3830 Ай бұрын

whats up with the audio, on my end it sounds like a car alarm going off in the background

@horrorfan8785 Ай бұрын

Well I'll say this video certainly blew up 0_0

@FnafFanProductions Ай бұрын

Ye, it got packet bombed 💀

@horrorfan8785 Ай бұрын

@@FnafFanProductionslol. Fr tho Congrats, you've been blessed once again :)

@highpath4776 Ай бұрын

A problem that the rail network was not comprehensive in GB coverage, not resilient when things went wrong, and had drivers with their own agenda. It should have been better for some trunking of mails and parcels.