These are snapshot-quality images taken early in the morning of 10th January at Yatton Station. The last Travelling Post Office to run in the UK called there shortly after 1am, for its regular pick-up of west country mail from Edinburgh, Norwich, Stansted and Belfast.
Rail and post office staff, both rail and road-based, had around fourteen minutes both to load the mail onto the train for the final time, to wish their colleagues farewell, and to provide an unexpected and much appreciated welcome to the group of people who'd turned out at a rather early hour to pay their respects to this operation. Thankyou.
'I sent her a postcard from somewhere near Lethbridge,
And wondered if it still went by rail' -
Song Lyric - Barenaked Ladies
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