* A Travelling Post Office mail train.

* Post Office Sorting Van, a type of rail vehicle used in a Travelling Post Office train

These include the famous LNER Travelling Post Office set, two LNER Beavertail observation saloon ( including one in its rebuilt condition ), and a number of “ Gresley ” teak-panel passenger coaches.

With this came the contract for the Royal Mail train service, including the Travelling Post Office trains ; the contract was one of the most profitable obtained by the company.

To service these Stationary Offices five Travelling Post Offices ( TPO-Post Offices operating from a railway carriage ) were set up and were operated by the APOC.

Britain's Royal Mail commissioned and built the first Travelling Post Office cars in the late 1840s as well.

In the UK, the equivalent term was Travelling Post Office ( TPO ).

Sorting of mail en-route first occurred in the United Kingdom with the introduction of the Travelling Post Office in 1838 on the Grand Junction Railway.

* Travelling Post Office — the term for cars in British use that served similar functions.

This sector of British Rail was responsible for transport of mail and parcels traffic, including the Travelling Post Office trains, as well as taking over the charter operations from Intercity.

A Travelling Post Office ( TPO ) was a type of mail train in the UK where the post was sorted en-route.

The last Travelling Post Office services were ended on 9 January 2004, with the carriages used now sold for scrap or to preservation societies.

These special trains eventually became Travelling Post Offices ( TPOs ).

* Great Central Steam Railway-where the Travelling Post Office and Mail Exchange on the Move is recreated

* Night Mail-Film and Poem about Travelling Post Office

* The Travelling Post Office, British Postal Museum and Archive

** The British Postal Museum & Archive-Victorian Travelling Post Office.

* Travelling Post Offices, Allan Yeo website.

# REDIRECT Travelling Post Offices in the United Kingdom

On 8 March 1996, a Travelling Post Office mail train hauled by a Rail Express Systems British Rail Class 86 electric locomotive ( no 86239 ) collided with a section of a freight train that had derailed on the adjacent line and fouled the path of the TPO mail train at Rickerscote just south of Stafford.

PCVs were also used on Travelling Post Office trains from London to Plymouth, Newcastle, Norwich, Carlisle and Glasgow.

A Post Office Sorting Van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a Travelling Post Office.

A Post Office Stowage Van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a Travelling Post Office ( TPO ).

A Brake Post Office Stowage Van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a Travelling Post Office.

Travelling home on a late train??

Travelling a section of track controlled by the Czechoslovaks he was sidetracked and stopped ; by December his train had only reached Nizhneudinsk.

Travelling to Ottawa by dog sled, ship, and train, the team lost the most lopsided series in Stanley Cup history, losing two games by the combined score of 32 to 4.

Travelling overland with an ox train, Bigler reached Sacramento in 1849, only to quickly discover no open positions in law.

Travelling on horseback to Fort Edmonton he passed a wagon train heading for the Oregon country-a sign of what would soon destroy his fur trade empire.

Travelling in a ' figure of six ' route, trains from Salisbury go to Romsey, then call at Redbridge and all stations to Eastleigh, where the train leaves the SWML to return to Romsey.

Travelling to destinations in Mumbai by rail often involves taking a train to Kurla first.

Travelling to Kadıköy from Tuzla by public transport takes about an hour to 40 minutes by train or bus.

Travelling in a specially designed six wheel drive vehicle, the team completed the journey from the Antarctic coast at Patriot Hills to the geographic South Pole in 69 hours.

Travelling performers, itinerant traders and wandering craftsmen who spend most of their time " on the road " came to see their world as separate from those governed by legal authorities.

Travelling south away from the waterfront, the ground rises: Shooters Hill in the east and the high ground of Blackheath in the west bookend the borough, Eltham to the south of these hills falls away slightly.

Travelling east from the mountains, the Central Otago drylands predominate.

Travelling west from Grenfell on the Mid Western Highway there are sign posts to Holy Camp and Ben Halls Cave.

Travelling to and from Lomma Municipality is easy, as a main highway actually passes straight through the town of Lomma, connecting with Lund and Malmö, and with other cities to the north.

Travelling in a northerly direction from the junction of Marlpit Lane and Hellesdon Road close to the former Hellesdon railway station the way soon crosses the tiny River Tud at Costessey.

Travelling south from Kingswood Junction, the first aqueduct is the modest Yarningale Aqueduct which carries the canal over a small stream near Preston Bagot, Warwickshire.

Travelling further north from the Bridgewater crossing, the next crossing point is New Norfolk Bridge, slightly north of the point where the Derwent reverts from seawater to fresh water, Bushy Park, Upper Meadowbank Lake, Lake Repulse Road, Wayatinah, and the most northerly crossing is at Derwent Bridge, before the river reaches its source of Lake St Clair.

Travelling with the OV-chipkaart one has to register starting a journey ( check in ) and ending it ( check out ), and must always travel away from the point of one's latest check-in.

Travelling from one mountain to the other, while staying in the ski area, was only possible at the valley elevation before 2008.

Travelling along the range from south to north reveals most strikingly a gradual increase in the share of sculpture due to Pleistocene glaciers.

Travelling from Spain in 1551, it arrived in Vienna in 1552, but died in 1554.

Travelling and music were the principal recreations of his life ; but his health continued to be bad, and he suffered from depression.

Tales from the National Gallery, Travelling Exhibition: Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery ; Middlesbrough Art Gallery ; Whitworth Art Gallery,

Travelling through Korosko and Berber, he arrived at Khartoum on 18 February, where he offered his earlier foe, the slaver-king Sebehr Rahma, release from prison in exchange for leading troops against Ahmed.

Still seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity, in 1781 Elijah Craig's brother Lewis led an exodus of up to 600 people known as " The Travelling Church " ( composed of most of his congregation and many others, e. g., from Germantown ) from their prior location ( Spotsylvania, VA ) to the area of Virginia known as Kentucky ( the largest single group to so migrate ).

Travelling from Barcelona and Puerto La Cruz, the Pan-American Highway continues westward.

Travelling from university to his home town in 1482, he was surprised by a snowstorm and took refuge in the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach.

Travelling from Bludenz, you enter state road B188 which takes you by the old cement plant of Lorüns and through the town of Lorüns.

Travelling north, traffic emerges from Hampstead Road ( A400 ) into the High Street at the junction with Eversholt Street, by Mornington Crescent tube station.

Travelling west from Brighton Beach station, the line operates on an unusual six track elevated structure over Brighton Beach Avenue, the former right-of-way of the Sea View Railway which originally provided service west of Brighton Beach.

Travelling from one end of this line to the other end takes 33 minutes.