Mail by rail scaled back

Royal Mail is to cease using its dedicated fleet of electric units from October 10 this year, with traffic transferring to road operations.

Rail services have already been scaled back from the time the Railnet postal system was conceived, and for which the Class 325 trains were built in 1995. Only a handful of terminals remain active.

The decision is a policy change from an earlier announcement that the use of rail services would be increased.