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LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth

Tamworth Station: lnwr_tam1744

Looking north towards Stafford from the High Level station with Tamworth's replacement up platform on the right

Looking north towards Stafford from the High Level station with Tamworth's replacement up platform on the right. The lines are from left to right - down slow, down fast, up fast and up slow. Travelling Post Offices (TPOs) were heavy users of the station as Tamworth was one of the major mail interchange points on the railway network. Peter Lee in his book on the Trent Valley line records that in British Railway days upwards of 2000 mailbags were dealt with on a nightly basis necessitating 20 General Post Office (GPO) employees to be based at Tamworth. In addition to the seven TPOs which called each night, the busiest time being 10 45pm and 1 45 am, Post Office motor vehicles from Birmingham, Stafford, Leicester, Lichfield and Coventry also connected to the service.

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