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Travelling Post Offices
A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train in Great Britain 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.
==Carriage of mail by train==
Following an agreement in 1830, made between the General Post Office and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), mail had been carried by train in Great Britain, between Liverpool and Manchester, via the L&MR.〔 Pp 303-304.〕 The passing of the Railways (Conveyance of Mails) Act 1838 required railway companies to carry mail, by ordinary or special trains, as required by the Postmaster General; however this act did not set the charges for such services.〔
These special trains eventually became Travelling Post Offices (TPOs). TPOs were employed in many British Commonwealth countries;〔Poole, L.G. (1969). "The Travelling Post Offices of Victoria: 1865 - 1912", In: ''Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin'', June, 1969, Pp127-139.〕 and the Army Post Office had its own TPOs.
TPOs were equipped with letter boxes so that mail could be posted whilst the train stood at a station. The post-marks from TPOs are valued by philatelists.
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