British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment

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A red BRUTE at London Liverpool Street, bearing the Red Star Parcels logo.
A red BRUTE at London Liverpool Street, bearing the Red Star Parcels logo.

British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment (BRUTE) was a system of mobile containers used by British Rail from the late 1960s to the early 1980s to enable the sorting, handling and distribution of parcels, newspapers etc. in connection with railway operations.

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