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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
273
Whishaw,
in
his
work
on
railways,
to
have
been
at
that
period
about
nine
tons.
At
that
time,
the
expense
of
the
service
was
regulated
by
the
weight
carried.
At
present,
on
the
great
trunk
line
of
the
London
and
North
Western
Railway
Company,
no
fewer
than
eight
mail-trains
run
daily
up
and
down,
each
conveying
railway
post-office
carriages
and
post-office
employés.
Half
of
these
trains
are
run
specially,
the
number
of
passengers
being
limited.
The
weight
of
mails
running
over
this
ground
must
have
increased
fourfold
at
the
least,
inasmuch
as
the
number
of
officers
have
been
augmented
in
even
a
greater
proportion.
Surprising
as
was
the
speed
at
which
the
first
railway
post-office
travelled,
and
wonderful
as
it
was
thought
at
the
time,
one
of
the
mail-trains
now
runs
nearly
double
the
distance
between
London
and
Lancaster
during
the
time
which
used
to
be
taken
for
that
ground
alone.
The
Limited
night-mail,
travelling
between
the
Euston
Square
station
in
London,
and
Perth
in
Scotland,
accomplishes
the
distance
of
451
miles
in
eleven
hours
and
a
half,
or
about
forty
miles
an
hour
including
stoppages!
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