Mail train

Many countries have had dedicated railway services for the delivery of postal mail.

Examples include:


 * In Australia, the Travelling post office, Queensland


 * In Austria, the (1850–2004)
 * In France, the SNCF TGV La Poste (1984–2015) were rail cars built specifically for La Poste, which had run rail services since 1846
 * In Germany, as well as the (from 1840s), several cities have their own mail trains, including:
 * in Berlin
 * in Munich
 * In Switzerland, the has run since 1847
 * In the United Kingdom, the Travelling Post Office (1830–2004) was a service where post was sorted en route
 * The London Post Office Railway (1927–2003) operated in dedicated tunnels under London
 * In the United States, the Railway Mail Service (1862–1978) of the United States Postal Service carried the vast majority of mail from the 1890s until the 1960s
 * The Railway Mail Service used railway post offices within passenger services to sort post en route
 * The use of the Chicago Tunnel Company for mail freight inspired the London Post Office Railway