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NAA 94320
The ACORP Community Railway Festival in 2005.
Royal Mail NAA 94320 at the ACoRP display at Norwich Station 23/9/2005.
This Royal Mail NAA 94320 at the ACoRP display at Norwich was one of 42 Propelling control vehicles converted for British Rail by Hunslet Barclay in the year 1994 to 1996 from 307 driving trailers for the Rail Express Systems parcel sector of British Rail. They had a cab at one end only.
The Type and number of this NAA be for its conversion was DTCOL 75120.
The other end of Royal Mail NAA 94320 at the ACoRP display at Norwich shows the two roller doors fitted on the sides for mail and the standard corrider connection. There was cab at each of end of the mail train and were not meant for long distance use, like the Driving Van Trailers (DVT) on the ECML or on the the WCML .
Mail trains were only propelled slowly with class 47/7s in push pull mode into the dead end platforms at terminus stations which had no run round loops so saving a 2nd loco.
From 1996 EWS took over the mail services for Royal Mail, but then lost out to road transport, and these and the rest of the rail mail fleet was needed.
Royal Mail NAA 94320 in 2010 at the Mid-Norfolk Railway were this Propelling Control Vehicle has been saved. This may be the only one of these preserved.
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National Community Rail Festival
The first national Community Rail Festival was backed by ACoRP, ONE and Norfolk County Council, RailFest 2005 ran from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th September in 2005, in and around Norwich station and along the two Community Rail lines.
It aim was to celebrate the success in developing local railway lines across the UK.
Norfolk was chosen because of its two community rail partnerships The Bittern Line and the Wherry Lines.
The organisers put on a display of modern traction hoping to spell out the social and environmental benefits that railways can bring to the UK as a whole.
Norfolk was chosen because of its two community rail partnerships, The Bittern Line that runs between Norwich and Sheringham had in the eight years up to 2005, a 192 percent growth in its passenger journeys. The Wherry Lines that run between Norwich and Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft had also improved.
Just some of the things going on when I went to Norwich station on the Saturday, were Morris dancing, stalls giving out leaflets and lots of other events held in and around the station and along the two Community Rail lines .
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