2-791-466 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Express train with the mail signals, 1844. Postal service between Britain and India - the mail travels from the port of Folkestone to London via '...a special train...despatched in less than two hours to the metropolis. On these occasions, the transit of a train on India Mail service, is indicated to all the railway servants by a broad white board placed during daylight in front of the engine; and, at night by three white lights in the same situation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.