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The Railway Museum (Dutch: Het Spoorwegmuseum) in Utrecht is the Dutch National Railway Museum. It was established in 1927 and since 1954 has been housed in the former Maliebaan station. The museum currently owns a large and varied collection of rolling stock. Postal Electric Unit mP 3031 of the type Motorpostrijtuig, serie mP 3001 - 3035, built in 1966 by Werkspoor, Amsterdam, at the Het Spoorwegmuseum / Railway Museum in Utecht Maliebaan former Station. July 15th, 2022. From 1956, 25 block box motor cars from the years 1926 - 1930, which were previously used in passenger service, were converted into motor mail cars on a trial basis. As a result, passenger trains could be less hindered by postal transport. When the test proved successful, it was decided in 1963 to purchase new motor mail carriages. In 1965 and '66 there were 35 which formed the series mP 3001 - 3035. They offered a floor area of ​​41 m2 and a payload of 15 tons. Three large sliding doors were fitted on both sides for loading and unloading the roll containers with mail bags. However, there was also a small sorting department. The power of the motor cars was large enough to pull 200 tons: four loaded postal carriages or eight freight wagons. The main color was brown, the color of the freight stock. In 1975 a larger part of the front was painted yellow. These freight cars came in 1978 when 60 special postal freight cars class 242 2 000 - 063 type Hbbkkss were purchased, so that mail transport could be handled completely independently of passenger traffic. However, they were not brown, but painted red. The drawn and streamlined postal carriages were withdrawn from service. The museum owns resp. the P 7920 and the streamlined P 8502. From 1982, the motor mail cars were painted PTT red, which made them better suited to the also red mail cars. Much of the mail transport took place at night. Due to the increasing number of nightly shutdowns after 1990 for track maintenance, postal transport was seriously hampered. In 2001 the PTT (KPN) decided to make all postal transport by road, so that all postal carriages and wagons became redundant. The outflow started in 2002. In that year, the Railway Museum acquired motor mail carriage mP 3031 in serviceable condition. The 242 2 043 of the postal wagons has been preserved at the museum. Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)

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mP 3031 and Df 50 84 92-37007 under way to Leidschendam for the open day, Moordrecht 3 oktober2014. Photo by Leen Dortwegt leendortwegt(AT)Gmail.com

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NS 1312 with mP 3031, which is restored in its original livery. Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 14.04.2006. Photo by Thomas van Berkel

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Dutch National Railway Museum Utrecht (Het Spoorwegmuseum) NS mP 3031 electric locomotive (1966) August 2018 Photo by A. Rueda (ad.rueda@gmail.com)

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NS - The Netherlands Open day at NS workshop Haarlem. Museum mail motor car 3031 of the National Railway Museum on display in the modern workshop of NS in Haarlem. Haarlem, 21-09-2019 Digital photo by Marco van Uden

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NS - The Netherlands Historic electric mail motor car (mP) 3031, owned by the Dutch National Railway Museum. Nedtrain Leidschendam, 04-10-2014 Digital photo by Marco van Uden

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NS/National Railway Museum - The Netherlands Exactly 25 years ago the last mail train operated in The Netherlands. Today the exhibition "Expeditie Posttrein" about mail trains was opened. Electric mail motor car 3031 has been restored into operational condition, in its original brown colour. Utrecht Maliebaan - 16-05-2022 Photo by Marco van Uden

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mP 3031 and Df 50 84 92-37 007 under way to Leidschendam, Moordrecht 3 oktober2014. Photo by Leen Dortwegt leendortwegt(AT)Gmail.com

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Mat 54 EMU nr 386 (Hondekop) at the Dutch Railway Museum - Utrecht Maliebaan station, 05-07-2008. Photo taken by r.hendriks (r.hendriks7@upcmail.nl)