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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
railway
post-office
proper,
is
now
extended
over
nearly
every
considerable
line
of
railway
in
the
kingdom.
It
comprises
a
number
of
divisions
or
sections,
named
generally
from
the
locality
through
which
they
extend,
or
the
railway
travelled
over,
as
the
Bangor
and
Leeds
division,
the
Caledonian
Railway
post-office.
The
four
principal
or
trunk
mails,
three
of
them
being
divided
into
two
sections,
are
(1)
the
North-Western
Railway
post-office,
travelling
between
London
and
Carlisle;
(2)
the
Irish
Mail,
between
London
and
Holyhead;
(3)
the
Great
Western,
between
London
and
Exeter;
and
(4)
the
Midland,
between
Bristol
and
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Most
of
these
divisions
have
day-
as
well
as
night-mails
running
over
them
daily.
Four
trains
a-day,
being
two
in
each
direction,
are
therefore
the
usual
proportion
of
mails
on
the
chief
lines
of
railway.
As
London
is
the
heart
of
the
postal
system,
so
these
four
principal
mails
may
be
termed
its
main
arteries,
while
as
veins
in
the
great
system,
there
are
a
number
of
smaller
divisions
of
the
railway
post-office
that
have
not
been
enumerated.
Again,
at
other
parts
or
points
not
important
or
extensive
enough
for
travelling
offices,
railway
trains
are
arranged
to
wait
the
arrival
of
the
trunk
mails;
and
thus,
to
continue
the
figure,
our
letters--the
life-blood
of
a
nation's
commerce
and
sociality--are
conveyed
to
the
remotest
corners
of
the
country.
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