Post Office Sorter at work in the Railway Sorting Carriage

at work in the Railway Sorting Carriage

"Sorting Letters on the Mail Express". The postcard shows a Post Office Sorter at work in what is thought to be a Great Western Railway Sorting Carriage attached to the "Ocean Mails" (Plymouth & Bristol TPO, Foreign Mails) which ran between Millbay Docks, Plymouth and Bristol, UK. [Any other suggestions would be welcomed.]

Between 1905 and 1907 Transatlantic liners of the United States Lines bound from the USA for Southampton stopped briefly off Plymouth Sound, England, to offload mails for Britain. Bristol is a major rail junction for both London and the North of England and Scotland.

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