Railways (Conveyance of Mails) Act 1838

Railway company, if required, to provide separate carriage for sorting letters, &c.

3. The company of proprietors of any such railway shall, on being required so to do by the postmaster general, provide and furnish (in addition to the carriages aforesaid) a separate carriage or separate carriages, fitted up as the postmaster general or such person as he shall nominate in that behalf, shall direct, for the purpose of sorting letters therein, and shall forward the same carriage, or carriages by their railway, at such hours or times, and subject to all such reasonable regulations as aforesaid as the postmaster general shall in that behalf order or direct; and such company of proprietors shall receive, take up, carry and convey in any such last-mentioned carriage or carriages all such post letter bags and officers of the Post Office as the postmaster general shall reasonably require, and shall deliver and leave any post letter bags and officers of the Post Office such places on the line of the railway as the postmaster general shall in that behalf from time to time reasonably order and direct.