Photograph Notes: This coach (it has the number 4920) was built by the Southern Railway in 1939 at Eastleigh. It is a TPO (Travelling Post Office) vehicle and was originally used on the Southern's night postal service from Waterloo to Weymouth and Exeter. It was then transferred to the Eastern Division for use on the Dover night postal service, until withdrawal in 1977. In 1830 an agreement was made between the General Post Office and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), according to which mail had was carried by train between Liverpool and Manchester using the L&MR. These special trains eventually became Travelling Post Offices (TPOs). TPOs were equipped with letter boxes so that mail could be posted whilst the train stood at a station. The first mail was sorted in a moving train in January 1838 and in 1845 the service was extended via Derby to Newcastle upon Tyne by the Midland Railway and soon after reached Scotland. The first special postal train was operated by the Great Western Railway between London and Bristol with the inaugural train leaving Paddington station at 20:46 on February 1855. In 1968 the Post Office introduced the two-tier letter service and since then the TPO�s have sorted only First Class mail. During the 1970�s some marginal TPO�s were withdrawn on economic grounds but the overall size and shape of the network remained largely unchanged until the mid-1980�s. After initially suspending the transport of mail by rail on 9 January 2004, Royal Mail reversed this decision over the Christmas season that year and began again operating some TPO trains. In 2009 the contract for the mail trains reverted to DB rail. In 1963 �2.3 million was stolen from a Glasgow to London TPO train. Wansford station > //.uk/photo/1560771 is situated on the Old Great North Road, a short distance away from the A1 road at Stibbington. It is the headquarters of the Nene Valley Railway. The railway buildings were sold off when the station was closed so a new station building had to be constructed. It was opened in 1995 and houses a booking office, a shop and caf� as well as public toilets. The NVR are presently trying to purchase the old station building > //.uk/photo/1560778.
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