What was the shortest electric loco hauled service?

[D6130]

Might I bite and ask what the nature of the traffic was?

High security paper traffic from Apsley Mills?

 

[ChiefPlanner]

Might I bite and ask what the nature of the traffic was?

AC loco + 2 vans must have gone like the proverbial off a shovel...

Mailbags with government traffics. High security.

 

[Gloster]

3A28 18:48 Hemel Hempstead to Euston non-stop SL 19:22 timed E700 in the timetable 6/3/67 to 5/5/68?
also
3A19 E700 19:17 parcels Hemel Hempstead to Bletchley 20:09 calling at Leighton Buzzard 19:40-19:59.
both preceded by
0A28 2xLE Electric 17:15 Bletchley to Hemel Hempstead 18:08 calling at Leighton Buzzard 17:25-17:45 to work the two parcels trains from Hemel Hempstead

Fascinating workings in the early days of electric trains

In 1979-1980 (from WTT Section CA) there was an 18.40 non-stop to Euston (19.16) SX, E595, 1A89 marked as Postal. There doesn’t appear to be a Down working, but the 19.00 Willesden (Carriage Siding No. 6 Road) to Rugby SX Parcels (4B14), D595, stopped at Hemel Hempstead 19.24-19.50.

 

[Whistler40145]

What's the distance of the former Folkestone Harbour line

 

[Gloster]

What's the distance of the former Folkestone Harbour line

Quail (2002) gives it as 79 chains from the points at East where the mileage reverses to the Harbour station. There are possibly up to 4 more chains at the Harbour and 14 in the sidings at East.

 

[D6130]

1S81, 20 50 Carlisle-Perth....electric loco-hauled from Carlisle to Mossend - only two carriages on a Saturday.

 

[Ken H]

High Royds Hospital Railway
Wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Royds_Hospital_Railway
Possibly the shortest standard gauge route



There was also the Hellingly Hospital Railway at 1.2 miles

Hellingly Hospital Railway - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tram map of that. https://timetableworld.com/ttw-viewer?token=a917765c-5733-4b7a-9d6b-192301f50de7