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Many countries have had dedicated railway services for the delivery of postal mail.
Examples include:
In Australia, the Travelling post office, Queensland
In Austria, the Bahnpost (Austria) [de] (1850–2004)
In France, the SNCF TGV La Poste (1984–2015) were rail cars built specifically for La Poste, which had run rail services since 1846
In Germany, as well as the Bahnpost (Germany) [de] (from 1840s), several cities have their own mail trains, including:
Poststraßenbahn Berlin [de] in Berlin
Post-U-Bahn München [de] in Munich
In Switzerland, the Bahnpost (Switzerland) [de] has run since 1847
In the United Kingdom, the Travelling Post Office (1830–2004) was a service where post was sorted en route
The London Post Office Railway (1927–2003) operated in dedicated tunnels under London
In the United States, the Railway Mail Service (1862–1978) of the United States Postal Service carried the vast majority of mail from the 1890s until the 1960s
The Railway Mail Service used railway post offices within passenger services to sort post en route
The use of the Chicago Tunnel Company for mail freight inspired the London Post Office Railway
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The 12903 / 12904 Golden Temple Mail is a mailtrain belonging to Indian Railways that runs daily between Mumbai Central (MMCT) in Maharashtra and Amritsar...
Components of a postal system: Fire sign (address) Letter box Mail carrier Mail bag Mailtrain Packstation Post box Post office Post-office box Postage rate...
and the Post Office Investigation Branch was established. The first mailtrain ran in 1830, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Post Office's...
stories. It was released in America by 20th-Century Fox under the title MailTrain. Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham join the army in an effort to uncover...
The Brahmaputra Mailtrain bombing was a terrorist attack on a train travelling in Western Assam in Eastern India on 30 December 1996. The bomb wrecked...
Imperial Indian Mail was a steam locomotive running from Bombay to Calcutta. The train was a part of a maritime rail system that carried mail and passengers...
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The Sallins Train robbery occurred in Ireland on 31 March 1976 when the Cork to Dublin mailtrain was robbed near Sallins in County Kildare. Approximately...
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specifically for staff to sort mail en route, in order to speed delivery. The RPO was staffed by highly trained Railway Mail Service postal clerks, and was...
American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mailtrain, officially known as the Fast Mail (train number 97), while en route from Monroe, Virginia...
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