Lectures On British Commerce Including Finance Insurance Business And Indust
Lectures On British Commerce Including Finance Insurance Business And Indust
Frederick Huth Jackson
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It stops at nine stations only, but mails are taken up and despatched by the apparatus at 54 other stations, the total weight of the mails thus transferred in one journey being about 3 tons. The additional time which would be occupied on the journey by the train if it stopped at all the apparatus stations would be at least five hours ; and as it would be out of the question to aUow the mail train so much more time than is taken by ordinary Passenger trains, many of the intermediate places would... have to be served by additional subsidiary mail trains at enormous cost. Great use is made of this apparatus throughout the country. There are no less than 322 wayside stations at which it is erected, and 182 Travelling Post Office carriages are fitted with it. In order that the letters may not be damaged by the transfer, which often takes place while the trains are travelling at a rate of 60 or 70 miles per hour, the mail bags are carefully packed in stout leather pouches. At some of the most important stations no less than nine of these pouches, each weighing up to 50 lbs..
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