David Spaven: Packaging passengers and small freight will benefit rural railways [Scotsman]
Date: 19/02/2019
Until the 1980s, a regular feature of Highland railway operation - on the Kyle and Mallaig lines in particular - was mixed trains, where the locomotive hauled both passenger coaches and freight wagons in a single trainload.
This was a useful way of sharing haulage costs on lightly-trafficked lines, but the practice disappeared when loco-hauled passenger trains were displaced by more economic diesel units with engines slung under their floors.
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Until the 1980s, a regular feature of Highland railway operation “ on the Kyle and Mallaig lines in particular “ was mixed trains, where the locomotive hauled both passenger coaches and freight wagons in a single trainload.
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