http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: " Spare trams ‘should be used as late-night couriers for parcels’ " en Thu, 21 May 2026 16:24:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5444#post-58188 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:37:55 +0000 crowriver 58188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No idea if this service still exists, but I was in Warsaw about 10 years ago, and had been delayed arriving. I had to get a small packet to another city in Poland that day, and was led by my host to the central train station. In one of the normal train carriage compartments the guard sat, surrounded by parcels. My host spoke to him through the open window, passed the packet to him with a small payment, and was issued a receipt. The person receiving the parcel simply had to get to the station in time for said train arriving, show ID, and the guard handed the packet over on the platform.</p> <p>Simple! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5444#post-58120 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:01:03 +0000 Arellcat 58120@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I recall with Laid Back cramming four recumbent bikes into the last West Highland train of the day. Yesterday I happened to be looking at the photos we took at the time, and the luggage area was huge, if a little tortuous to access. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5444#post-58118 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:54:18 +0000 custard 58118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>as a kid,I seem to recall buses having a parcel service </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5444#post-58115 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:49:30 +0000 kaputnik 58115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Volkswagen use a pair of trams - the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CarGoTram">CarGoTram</a> - to move parts from their logistics centre to their factory in Dresden.</p> <p>British Rail "Red Star Parcels" used to use a similar concept, moving priority parcels and letters on passenger trains. Local agents would then complete the "last mile" run from the station to the destination. For whatever reason, BR fell out with these agents and the service declined and was later sold on, eventually ending up with UPS, but using trains has long since ceased.</p> <p>Nicely back OT, the lockable parcel lockers that BR specified on many of its new-build passenger units in the 1980s for Red Star traffic is one of the reasons that there was space available to install very generous cycle racks in the ends of the trains (think the old North Berwick trains, or West Highland line). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5444#post-58107 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:24:03 +0000 custard 58107@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>sounds impractical TBH<br /> only companies on the routes?<br /> do they come to the tram or do they deliver to the people?<br /> who are they delivering to in the evening? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5444#post-58102 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:01:54 +0000 chdot 58102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/spare_trams_should_be_used_as_late_night_couriers_for_parcels_1_2136370" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/transport/spare_trams_should_be_used_as_late_night_couriers_for_parcels_1_2136370</a> </p>