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- The world's first official carriage of mail by rail was by the United Kingdom's General Post Office in November 1830, using adapted railway carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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July 30, 1993 - Permanent. Exhibition. The Railway Mail Service revolutionized the way mail was processed by sorting mail aboard moving trains. The National Postal Museum re-created a railway mail train in its Atrium. The interior fixtures is from a de-commissioned mail car.
Other sources state that the first official contract to regularly carry mail on a train was made with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in either 1834 or 1835. The United States Congress officially designated all railroads as official postal routes on July 7, 1838.
The Creation, 1832-1864. Illustration of the Hannibal and St. Joseph, MO railway mail train car used by Davis for the experimental railway mail service in 1862. Through the first decades of the 19th century, postal officials relied on stagecoaches and boats to extend mail service into growing national territories.
The Post Office (London) Underground Railway, or Mail Rail, transported mail under the streets of London from 1927 to 2003. Early schemes In 1855, Rowland Hill, then Secretary to the Post Office, submitted a report to the Postmaster General on a system for conveying mail in underground tubes.
In 1869, the great transcontinental railroad was completed. The mail was a lifeline connecting Western settlers with loved ones back home.
May 3, 2019 · In 1838, all railroads in the United States were declared to be post routes and the Postmaster General was instructed “to cause the mail to be transported thereon, provided it can be done upon reasonable terms.”. By 1850, 6,886 miles of railway were used to carry the mail; by 1860 that mileage had quadrupled to 27,129.
Dec 8, 2022 · On December 5, 1832, Slaymaker and Tomlinson, stage route contractors of the time, also began carrying the mail by rail from Lancaster to West Chester, Pennsylvania, marking the official beginning of the use of rail by the U.S. Post Office department to transport the mail.
