# Mail train

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Many countries have had dedicated railway services for the delivery of postal [mail](/source/mail).

Examples include:

* In Australia, the [Travelling post office, Queensland](/source/Travelling_post_office%2C_Queensland)

* In Austria, the {{Interlanguage link multi|Bahnpost (Austria)|de|3=Bahnpost (Österreich)}} (1850–2004)
* In France, the {{lang|fr|[SNCF TGV La Poste](/source/SNCF_TGV_La_Poste)}} (1984–2015) were rail cars built specifically for ''{{lang|fr|La Poste}}'', which had run rail services since 1846
* In Germany, as well as the {{Interlanguage link multi|Bahnpost (Germany)|de|3=Bahnpost (Deutschland)}} (from 1840s), several cities have their own mail trains, including:
** {{Interlanguage link multi|Poststraßenbahn Berlin|de}} in Berlin
** {{Interlanguage link multi|Post-U-Bahn München|de}} in Munich
* In Switzerland, the {{Interlanguage link multi|Bahnpost (Switzerland)|de|3=Bahnpost (Schweiz)}} has run since 1847
* In the United Kingdom, the [Travelling Post Office](/source/Travelling_Post_Office) (1830–2004) was a service where post was sorted en route
** The [London Post Office Railway](/source/London_Post_Office_Railway) (1927–2003) operated in dedicated tunnels under London
* In the United States, the [Railway Mail Service](/source/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 office](/source/railway_post_office)s within passenger services to sort post en route
** The use of the [Chicago Tunnel Company](/source/Chicago_Tunnel_Company) for mail freight inspired the London Post Office Railway

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