Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.

The United States Postal Service's Railway Mail Service was a significant mail transportation service in the US during the time period from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

By 1869 when the Railway Mail Service was officially inaugurated, the system had expanded to virtually all of the major railroads of the United States, and the country was divided into six operating divisions.

Railway Mail Service ( note the " RMS " in the obliterator ) postal cancellation

As highway mail transportation became more prevalent, the Railway Mail Service was redesignated as the Postal Transportation Service.

* History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993: Railway Mail Service

( 1980 ) 29 Years to Oblivion, The Last Years of Railway Mail Service in the United States, Mobile Post Office Society, Omaha, Nebraska.

( 1985 ) The Railway Mail Service, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia.

( 1956 ) MEN AND MAIL IN TRANSIT, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia.

( 1956 ) MAIL IN MOTION, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia.

* Carr, Clark E. ( 1909 ) The Railway Mail Service, Its Origin and Development, A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.

( 1980 ) 29 Years to Oblivion, The Last Years of Railway Mail Service in the United States, Mobile Post Office Society, Omaha.

The Fast Mail, History of the Railway Mail Service, Prologue Vol.

* Pennypacker, Bert The Evolution of Railway Mail, National Railway Bulletin Vol.

* Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century

Only after the completion of the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1850 and the building of Holyhead railway station did the Irish Mail return to Holyhead.

The London Post Office Railway was axed by Royal Mail in 2003 — this had been a network of driverless trains running along a private underground track since 1927.

Gordon Chappell, Regional Historian for the Park Service, claims that this depot building is one of only three log-cabin-style train stations currently standing, out of fourteen ever built in the U. S. The depot is the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway which begins in Williams, Arizona.

There is a L & HR snow flanger, Tidewater tank car, a CNJ box car owned by the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, a 1922 Chestnut Ridge Mack railbus owned by the Lehigh Valley NRHS, a Public Service trolley owned by the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society, a 44 ton GE locomotive and a 25 ton GE locomotive.

The City of Richland Hills is served by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority with Rider Request service, Mobility Impaired Traansportation Service ( MITS ) and the Richland Hills Station on the Trinity Railway Express commuter rail line.

Public Service Railway brought trolley lines into Rutherford around the turn of the century.

Railway mania had reached its zenith.

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861.

By 1838 and the opening of the Great Western Railway, Upton-cum-Chalvey's parish population had reached 1, 502.

The Trans-Siberian Railway reached the city in 1900 causing an explosion in growth.

The Benedictine Abbey can be reached by road, by the Aeri de Montserrat cable car, or by the Montserrat Rack Railway.

The London and South Western Railway ( L & SWR ) reached Waterloo in 1848.

It is reached via winding hill roads or a complicated rack railway system, known as the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, built in 1908 by impassioned and enterprising British citizens with venture capital from the Madras government.

The Cornwall Railway reached Falmouth on 24 August 1863.

In 1858, Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis reached Rzeszów, which resulted in further development of the town.

The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway reached Floresville in 1886.

In the fall of 1911 the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway reached the townsite of Rankin, and by January 1912 most of the people living in Upland had moved to Rankin.

The railroad reached Presidio County in 1882 when the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway laid tracks through its northeastern corner.

The Texas and Pacific Railway and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway eventually reached an agreement to share the tracks, with a number of towns arising along the way

By 1876, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway reached Seguin and was completed to as far as San Antonio the following year.

The Texas and Pacific Railway and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway eventually reached an agreement to share the tracks.

The first railroad through the county was the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway ( later the Wabash Railroad ) which was built from the east across the northern part of the county and reached Attica in 1856 ; it continued west through Warren County and reached the Illinois state line the following year.

The South Devon Railway was completed in 1849, extending the broad gauge to Plymouth, whence the Cornwall Railway took it over the Royal Albert Bridge and into Cornwall in 1859 and, in 1867, it reached over the West Cornwall Railway which originally had been laid with the standard gauge or " narrow gauge " as it was known at the time.