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Come and meet us in 2026
- SWINPEX, Saturday June 13th, Grange Leisure & Community Centre, Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, SN3 4JY.
- AGM by video conference, 2pm UK local time, Sunday 5th July 2026
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Not only are we here to meet members and new faces but we bring items to sell:
covers and books to satisfy a wide variety of collecting interests. Make sure you stop by our table.
The Minutes of the 2025 AGM are here
Current TPO Journal
The Winter 2025 Journal, number 370, has been mailed.
The contents are listed below.
The Winter 2025 auction
closes on the 15th January 2026.
Recent Website Updates
The Maritime Mail page written by Mike Dovey has been completely rewritten.
New Zealand TPO Checklist by member Anthony Nicholson has been updated for 2025 with more dates.
Member Frank Scheer is The Secretary and treasurer of the Railway Mail Service Library Foundation located in Boyce, Virginia USA. He has provided many articles for The Journal as well as other papers about Railway Post Offices and these are now being made available on our website for downloading the “USA Section”.
See US Seapost cover images from "Seaposts of the USA" by Roger Hosking on our publications page.
Visit our Research Resources Page
Research and Survey / Census projects carried out by our members and articles of note published elsewhere by our members. Click to go to our Research Resources Page.
Latest addition is The Railway Stamps of Great Britain, 1891 - 1934 by Joana Kleinsorge and Richard Frajola
An August 1882 cover sent from London to Basingstoke, in Hampshire, and sorted on the South Western TPO (W423). See article in the Winter Journal.
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The Winter 2025 edition of the TPO Journal is now available with the following content: |
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| Mails from South America to Britain in 1872 | The TPO System in the British Isles - 2 |
| What the public was told about mails to New Zealand in June 1885 | Early Use of the London & Dover (French Day Mail) Sorting Carriage T/30 Taxe Mark |
| An Interesting but 'Unknown' Cachet-Or is it? -2 | London & Queenboro Sorting Tender - Undated Handstamp |
| Wreck Mail - S.S. Kingstonian - April 1918 | Southampton and the Railways |
| Quarantine in West Africa | Tasmania - The TPOs |
| Interesting routing - UK to St Helena in 1888 | Grand Northern Railway Post Office |
| Mozambique, Ambulancia Query | B.& N. Ry Query |
| The Origins of Mail by Rail in India 1860-1880 | |
| This edition of the Journal also includes a Christmas Super Sale. This is your chance to buy up to 6 books for giveaway prices. | |
| Next Auction | Copy and Publishing dates for the Journal |
Please look at the Contact page to see our current cover choices. You may also return to the Welcome Page or go to the site map.
