Title

Mail train carrying letters to London from towns and cities in Britain, c1900. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Mail train carrying letters to London from towns and cities in Britain, c1900. It shows sorters at work on board and, inset, the way sacks of letters could be left at destinations en route or collected in a net while the train was moving at speed. From Bubbles published by Dr Barnardo's Homes for children. (London, c1900).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_133

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,1Mb) / 11,6in x 16,8in / 3474 x 5028 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation people male working work job man men communications train guy occupation British post mail letter railway color colour Victorian century Britain profession sack concept sorting post office postal worker Royal Mail postal service 19th century 1900s 20th century mail bag nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive mail train oleograph sorting office chromolithograph Unknown chromolithograph