A Post Office stowage van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a

travelling post office A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route. The TPO can be traced back to the earlier days of the railway, the first ever postal movement by rail being performe ...

(TPO). Several of these have passed into preservation as they are very useful for storage on the railways.

Preservation

The preserved stowage vehicles are as follows: In addition, 80421 was also purchased for preservation by the

Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway The Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway (E&BASR) is a heritage railway in North Yorkshire, England, formed in 1979 and opened in 1981. The preserved railway was part of the former Midland Railway route from Skipton to Ilkley which was clo ...

, but was scrapped in July 2008. Pre-Nationalisation TPO Stowage Vehicles:

References

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