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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jack Simpson

Royal Mail to stop using its own freight trains after almost 200 years

Sorting night mail on a Royal Mail train
Sorting night mail on a Royal Mail train. The service reached its peak in the lead up to the second world war, when more than 130 trains were used on the network. Photograph: Tony McGrath/taken from picture library

Royal Mail is to stop using its own trains to transport post after almost 200 years.

The company has confirmed it will decommission its remaining freight trains by 10 October, with a plan to increase the amount of post it moves by road.

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