Public transportation advocates have actually prompted Royal Mail to transfer article by rail after the business axed its fleet of mail trains last month.
Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) fans supplied a large postcard to the post office’s head workplace in main London on Friday early morning with the message “Mail belongs on rail”.
Royal Mail claimed in July its practically 30-year-old red products trains went to completion of their functional lives and it would certainly not buy substitutes.
The last trip by the fleet happened last month.
Royal Mail formerly promised to make use of various other train solutions to transfer mail.
It claimed it began a three-month test with a business products train driver previously this month.
Royal Mail started running trains to transfer article in 1830.
Thousands of individuals included their names to the CBT postcard, which was resolved to Royal Mail chairman Keith Williams.
Mr Williams holds the very same setting at Great British Railways Transition Team, which is collaborating with the Government and the rail sector to get ready for scheduled extensive reform of the industry.
The message of the postcard read: “Mail and rail belong together: they have been working in concert, connecting communities for almost 200 years.
“It is therefore vital that Royal Mail and the Government work to increase the amount of mail delivered by train, not risk pushing more onto the roads.
“After a year of record-breaking global temperatures, any reduction in rail freight would be all the more disastrous, increasing carbon emissions, air pollution and traffic on our roads.
“With your roles at both Royal Mail and Great British Railways, you have a perfect opportunity to find a solution.”
CBT head of projects Michael Solomon Williams explained Royal Mail’s choice to deactivate its train fleet as “tragic” yet urged “this need not be the end of the line”.
He claimed: “Post is changing, not declining, and online parcel orders make the case for greener, faster deliveries, so Royal Mail should lead by example.
“It should reach out to the Government, which has professed its support for rail freight, and work with it to get deliveries back on track.”
Rail chronicler and broadcaster Christian Wolmar claimed mail has actually been lugged by rail “profitably for both parties” for virtually 200 years.
He included: “A way must now be found to continue that symbiotic relationship.”
Andrea Rossi, president of DB Cargo UK, which ran Royal Mail’s trains, claimed he was “deeply disappointed” at Royal Mail’s choice to “switch from rail to road-based logistics”.
