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The Postal Express

Episode 2 of 10

Station Master Horace hopes a new mail system will save the sleepy halt. Stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender. From December 1971.

Parsley Sidings' Station Master Horace Hepplewhite hopes a new automated mail system will save the sleepy halt in a trial with his deadly rival.

Starring Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender.

Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station.

Horace Hepplewhite …. Arthur Lowe
Bert Heplewhite …. Ian Lavender
Percy Valentine/Bradshaw/The Vicar …. Kenneth Connor
Gloria Simpkins …. Liz Fraser

Missing original announcements re-created for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra by Keith Skues.

Producer: Edward Taylor

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2 in December 1971.

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