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When was the carriage of letters by rail legalised in Britain by agreement with the Postmaster General?

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  1. Mails were carried on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway from 1830 on. This was the first official transit of mail by train.

    1837, the year Queen Victoria came to the throne, saw the first Travelling Post Office (TPO) on the London & Birmingham Railway and in 1849 the first apparatus for pick-up and set-down from moving trains was patented.

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