Regulation of Railways Act, 1868

Special trains exclusively for service of Post Office, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 98.

36. Whenever in pursuance of any notice under the Railway Conveyance of Mails Act, 1838, or otherwise, the mails or post letter bags are conveyed and forwarded by a company on their railway by a special train, the Postmaster General may by the same or any other notice in writing require that the whole of such special train shall be appropriated to the service of the Post Office exclusively of all other traffic except such as he may sanction, and the remuneration to be paid for such service shall be settled as prescribed by the sixth section of that Act.