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Post Office stowage van
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by York engine sheds and locomotive works· from 1959· UK rolling stock class
🚃 carriage / wagon retired
what is it?
A Post Office stowage van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a travelling post office (TPO). Several of these have passed into preservation as they are very useful for storage on the railways.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 19.5 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 45 years (1959–2004).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- retired
- 2004
- status
- retired
- number built
- 19
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- York engine sheds and locomotive works
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 19.5 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7233700, Wikipedia: Post Office stowage van (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.