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TPOs - The Final Nights - Locos, Carriages
and Times Details of each TPO on their final
night. formations, locos and times at each station
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The Class 67 Details of the class
67s that have been named to date.
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| The TPO Carriages |
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The Southern TPO Coaches Details
of all the Southern Railway designed TPO carriages.
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The London Midland & Scottish Railway TPO
Coaches Details of all the London Midland
& Scottish Railway designed TPO carriages.
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The British Railways TPO Coaches Details
of all the British Railway designed Mark 1 TPO carriages.
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| Documentation The
'Friends of M30272M TPO Group' have over a period of time
collected a vast array of TPO related documentation and
labels. It is our intention to publish much of this here
so that everyone can discover the intricate way in which
the post office administered the system. It will take
many months (if not years) to fully document the
information we have available, please bear with us.
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Labels Labels used on the TPO
system
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Rules & Regulations Like all
areas of the Post Office and indeed railways there
existed a set of rules and regulations about the working
of a Travelling Post Office coach.
Rules for working in Travelling Post Offices (1955).
This is available as both a scanned
version and a text
version.
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Blind Lists As mentioned in the Did you know?
pages the days before postcode required an encyclopaedic
knowledge of the areas dealt with by the TPO staff.
Regular sorting every night meant that the hundreds of
obscure villages and hamlets in each county became
imprinted on the mind. In a sorting office there was time
to look up an odd place in the 'blind list' - on a TPO a
name would be shouted out and most of the time someone
would know its location - there simply was not enough
time to look each one up. It was a matter of honour NOT
to refer to the blind list. The following pages show the
vast knowledge that TPO staff would acquire over a period
of time about every place in the areas that they worked.
The
'Blind List' for Cambridgeshire (6 pages)
The
'Blind List' for Essex (11 pages)
The
'Blind List' for Norfolk (9 pages)
The
'Blind List' for Suffolk (6 pages)
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| Carriage
Terminology |
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Carriage Terminology Terms used to
describe various sections of a carriage
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