RAILWAY PHILATELY
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
AND GLOSSARY
Part
I: Travelling Post Offices and Railway Stations.
Introduction
It was suggested at the Railway Philatelic Group Convention of
2001 that it would be useful if a bibliography of references to railway
philately were prepared.
The most pressing difficulty has been how decide on a
criterion for inclusion. For countries for which definitive works have been
published we have tended to omit articles, which duplicate material found in
the books. For countries for which no such definitive works have yet been
published we have included even short articles, which shed a little light on
the subject. References to TPO before volume 18 have been drawn from the
Cumulative Index.
The list is arranged
alphabetically by country. For countries not indicated in bold type, no
reference is known. References to ‘TPO’ are to the journal of the TPO &
Seapost Society. The TPO Cumulative Index for volumes 1-50 is an
indispensable tool. References to ‘EMS’ (Eisenbahn
Motiv Sammler) are to the journal of the Motivgruppe Eisenbahnwesen.
We are most grateful to Horst Brix, Keith Downing, John
Forshaw, Helmuth Hagen, Philip Robinson, Chris Tennant and many others for
their help in compiling the bibliography.
Any comments and additions please to tonyz@agoodbody.co.uk
(Remove the z after tony)
Algeria
See works by Chase and Pothion under France.
Angola
Grether W. & Walker M.
The TPO Cancellations of Angola
Published in Newsletter of the (South African) Railway
Thematic Group No 24 February
1992 3 pp
Outlines details of TPOs in Angola with dates
of use of all numbered postmarks.
Martin, R.
‘Angola.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 47, No.4, pp72-74; vol. 48, No.1, pp17-18, 1993/4
See also under Portugal.
Argentina
Bose, W.B.L. & Korth, R.
‘Estafetas Postales Ambulantes Argentinas 1865-1965.’
(The TPOs of Argentina, 1865-1965)
Illustrated. b/w, 38pp
Publisher: the authors (?), 1974
Spanish text with introduction in English and German.
Catalogues railway, river and highway TPO marks.
Will identify the line (but not the precise terminal points)
for any numbered route.
Ceriani, J.A. & Kneitschel, R.
‘Postmarks used in Railway Ambulant Post Offices – Argentina 1865 –
1892’
Illustrated, 56pp. Spanish & English text
Published by Biblioteca del Cronista Filatélico, 2nd
Edition, 1995
ISBN 987-99634-2-3
Lists and illustrates TPO marks by railway (with historical background for
each)
Australia
‘Posted on Train, Australia.’
TPO: Vol. 21, No.2, p47, 1967
Australia (NSW)
Peck, R.C.
‘N.S.W. Travelling Post Offices 1870-1983.’
Illustrated b/w, 126pp.
Published by the author, 1983
ISBN 0 9596099 3 8
Details of routes, postmarks and vehicles.
Apparently comprehensive and a superb work.
Frankenstein, V.
‘Handstamps of the Travelling Post Offices of New South
Wales.’
Illustrated. b/w, 7pp.
Published by Robson Lowe.
A catalogue listing with recorded dates before Federation
only.
Australia (Queensland)
Adams, G.T.
‘Queensland Beyond the Catalogue’ Part IV
Gibbons Stamp Monthly, October 1982, pp 48-50
Contains a paragraph on Queensland TPOs
Gavin, A.A.
‘Quensland TPO Marks and Notes’
TPO Vol.5 p.78; p.167; Vol.6 p.32, p.60, p.62, p.97, p.153;
Vol.15 p.135; Vol.18 p.61; Vol.23 p.182; Vol.24, p.27.
Australia (South
Australia)
Presgrave, A.D.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of South
Australia’
Illustrated, b/w (coloured back cover), 132pp.
Published by the Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund
ISBN 0 9527177 6 X
Comprehensive treatment of the vehicles, postmarks and routes.
Australia (Tasmania)
Heaps, E.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Tasmania.’
Illustrated, b/w. 7pp.
TPO: Vol. 33, No.3, pp51-57, 1979
Historical introduction, followed by description of the routes
and the postmarks used. One map.
Australia (Victoria)
Purves, J.R.W.
‘Victoria: The
Travelling Post Offices and their markings, 1865-1912.’
Illustrated, b/w. 66pp.
Published by the author, 1979 (2nd. Ed.)
ISBN 0 7256 0220 1
The definitive work by the acknowledged authority on the
subject.
Australia (Western
Australia)
Owen, G.E.
‘The TPOs of Western
Australia.’
TPO: Vol. 19, No.1, pp6-10; Vol. 19, No.2, pp49-52; vol. 19,
No.3, pp101-103; vol. 19, No.4, pp125-126; Vol. 20, No.4, pp107-108,1965/6.
‘Western Australia: The Stamps
and Postal History.’
Published by the Western Australia Study Group, P.O. Box
T1774, Perth, WA 6001
ISBN 9596 476 00
(This publication includes a short chapter (10 pp) on Western Australia
TPOs.)
Austria
‘The Travelling Post Office in Austria.’
Illustrated, b/w, Approx. 60pp.
Published in ‘Austria,’ the
Journal of the Austrian Stamp Club of Great
Britain
Parts 1-8, July 1966 –April 1968.
(The dates of the parts have been deduced and need to be
confirmed. The series probably extends beyond part 8. The parts listed cover
the subject to about 1900.)
Bock, G.
‘Bahnpost in Südtirol.’
Illustrated, b/w 145pp
Published by the author in 1998, spiral bound.
Detailed study of lines south of the Brenner
Pass which were part of Austria until 1918,
but now in Italy.
Christian, R.L.
‘The TPOs of Austria.’
TPO: Vol. 22, No.5, pp158-160, 1968.
The current list of TPOs in 1968.
Clothier, A.C.
‘Current TPOs of Austria.’
TPO: Vol. 26, No.2, pp38-39; Vol. 26, No.3, pp89-91, 1972
The current list of TPOs in 1972.
Klein, W.
‘Die postalischen Abstemplungen
und andere Entwertung-arten auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben
1867, 1883 und 1890, Zweiter Band.’
Hans Kolbe, Seilergasse 2, A-1010
WIEN, 1973
Chapters 5-8 (pp 573-710) comprise a comprehensive listing of
TPOs, mailguards, cross border routes etc.
Visser, J.P.
‘Austrian Gesamtpostkurs.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol.26, No.5, pp141-144
Deals with post World War II Mailguard marks.
Waldhäusel, F.
‘Der deutsche Bahnpoststempel in
der Ostmark 1938 – 1945 und ab 1945 in der 2 Republik Österreich’
Special issue of ‘Die Briefmarke.’
Illustrated, b/w. Undated, 16pp.
Deals with German oval type of TPO postmark used in Austria.
Meyer, F.T.
‘Austrian TPOs.’
TPO: Vol. 18, No.2, pp35-38; No.3, pp76-78; No.4, pp113-114;
No.5, pp142-144, 1964
Contains list of TPOs current in 1964
Waldhäusel, F.
‘Die Eisenbahnpostkurse
Österreichs ab 8 August 1966.’
Illustrated b/w, 5pp.
Die Briefmarke, Nr. 145, Sept. 1971, pp21-26, 1971.
An introduction and listing of the Austrian TPO routes from 8th August, 1966. German
text.
‘The Austrian Gesamtpostkurs Mark.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol23, No.6, pp173-175, 1969
Deals with the mailguard marks.
Bechuanaland
Hagen H.
The Railway Letter Post in Bechuanaland
Protectorate
Published in Newsletter of the (South African) Railway
Thematic Group No 25 April
1992, 3 pp
Outlines details of carriage of railway letters by South
African Railways in Bechuanaland and modern Botswana up to 1986.
See also under South
Africa
Belgian
Congo
In the TPO Cumulative Index, there are several references of
notes only in early numbers of TPO up to Vol.7
Belgium
Andrews, S.J., Loader, C.C.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Belgium.’
Illustrated b/w, 11pp.
TPO: Vol. 29, No.3, pp51-55; Vol. 29, No.4, pp94-96; Vol. 30,
No.1, pp18-20, 1975/6.
Deals with the very early Belgian TPO marks up to about 1850.
De Bast, J. & Herman, H.
‘Bureaux Ambulants de Belgique, 1840-1988.’
Illustrated, b/w, 463pp. French text.
Club 92, Erquelinnes, 1998
The definitive work.
Madame Henrot
‘Belgian TPOs in July, 1892.’
Not illustrated
TPO: Vol. 21, No.5, pp161-2, 1967
Kidd, C.
‘Sorting marks of the Belgian Railway Post Office.’
TPO: Vol. 21, No.1, pp1-4, 1967
Kidd, C.
‘The Belgian Foreign sorting marks used in TPOs from 1840 to
1880.’
Illustrated, b/w,
TPO: Vol. 41, No.1, pp14-23, 1987
Kidd, C.
‘Belgian Station Marks used by the Bureaux Ambulants.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 41, No.2, pp37-40, 1987.
Sauer-Drissen, L.
‘De Belgische Spoorwegen en de
Militaire Postcolli.’
1994
Stas, M. & Magnette, A.
‘Repertoire des Gares et Lignes du Reseau Ferroviare Belge,
Illustrated, b/w with maps of Ligne 0 until Ligne 166, 1995.
Bolivia
Harmshaw, R.O.
‘Bolivia: TPOs and
Ornamental Cancellations of the Late 19th and early 20th
Centuries.’
The Mainsheet, Vol.2, No.5 Sept/ Nov. 1973, pp10-18
Follow-up articles in Vol.2, No.6 pp57-58 and Vol.2, No.7, p85
There are several references (notes only) in TPO, Vols. 9-26
Brazil
Bayliss, D.
‘The TPOs of Brazil – The
Cancellations of Bahia State.’
Illustrated b/w, 6pp.
TPO: Vol. 31, No.1, pp6-11, 1977.
Detailed article containing map and tracings of the cancels.
Bayliss, D.
‘The Railways of Minas State.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 46, No.2, pp39-41; Vol. 46, No.3, pp53-56; Vol. 46, No.4, pp75-77;
vol. 47, No.1, pp5-7, 1992/3
Ponge, H.
‘The TPOs of Brazil’
illustrated, b/w.
TPO: Vol. 19, No.5, pp158-9; Vol. 19, No.6, pp197-200; Vol.
20, No.1, pp18-20; Vol. 20, No.2, pp54-55 ; Vol. 20, No.3, pp85-87; Vol. 20,
No.4, pp114-116;Vol. 20, No.5, pp144-146; Vol. 20, No.6, pp180-184; vol. 21,
No.1, pp20-22;Vol. 21, No.2, pp54-56;Vol. 21, No.3, pp90-92; Vol 21, No.6,
pp210-212; Vol. 22, No.1, pp22-25; Vol. 22, No.2, pp54-56; Vol. 22, No.3,
pp94-95; Vol. 22, No.4, pp126-128; Vol. 22, No.5, pp154-156; Vol. 22, No.6,
pp200-203; Vol. 23, No.1, pp18-20; Vol.23, No.2, pp54-56, 1965/9.
Covers the South Central Zone (the states of São Paulo, Goiás and
Mato Grosso) only, based on the author’s collection.
British Guiana
Kidd, C.
‘British Guiana – The TPOs
and TPAs’
Illustrated, b/w, 5pp
TPO: Vol. 38, No.3, 1984, pp51-55.
Updating of 1951 article describing routes and postmarks, both
railway and river. Curiously it seems to have been written without reference
to the much longer and more comprehensive chapter in the Townsend & Howe
book on British Guiana.
Townsend, W.A. & Howe, F.G.
‘Travelling Post Offices and Postal Agencies’
Illustrated, b/w, 30pp.
Royal Philatelic Society, London, 1970.
Chapter 33 (pp376-405) of the definitive work ‘British
Guiana: The Postage Stamps and Postal History.’
Bulgaria
Dehn, R.A.
‘Some Bulgarian TPOs.’
TPO: Vol. 30, No.4, pp93-95; Vol. 31, No. 1, pp25-26; vol. 31,
No.2, pp42-43, 1976/7.
Tentative series of articles.
Kool, F. & Hitzler, T.
Der Beginn der Eisenbahnpost in Bulgarien
und Ostrumelien, in Rundbrief No. 9 der Interessengemeinschaft der
Bulgariensammler 2004, Seite 919 - 930
Triffonov T.B.
Bahnpost in Bulgarien
EMS Nos. 129-132 inclusive 1997-1998
In German – Illustrated 16pp
Burma
Davis, G. & Martin, D.
‘Burma Postal
History’
Illustrated, b/w, 204pp (plus 1987 supplement)
Robson Lowe, 1971
Chapters 6 & 7 deal with rail and steamer services.
The definitions in the supplement apply to the whole of India.
Cameroons (French)
See under French Colonies
Cameroons (German)
‘German Colonial TPO, 1913-1914.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 26, No.3, p71, 1972.
Canada
Gillam, L.F.
‘Canadian Mail by Rail, 1836-1867.’
Illustrated, b/w, 168pp, hardbound.
Published by the author, 1985.
Deals with pre-confederation railway systems of Upper and Lower
Canada, with mail markings used on route and detailed
historical material.
Gillam, L.F.
A History of Canadian RPOs, 1853-1967.
Illustrated, b/w, 179 pp + 16 maps.
Published by the American Philatelic Society, Inc., 1979
ISBN 0-933580-02-9
Cross referenced with the Shaw/ Ludlow list with which
it should be used in conjunction. Newfoundland is
unfortunately not included.
Ludlow, Lewis, M.
‘Catalogue of Canadian Railway Cancellations and Related
Transportation’ Postmarks
Illustrated, b/w. 272pp., spiral bound
Published by the author, 1982
Updated version of the Shaw/Ludlow edition of 1975.
McLeod O’Reilly, S.
‘On Track: The Railway Mail Service in Canada’
Illustrated, b/w, 150pp.
Published by Canadian Museum of
Civilisation, 1992
Shaw, T.P.G.
‘Catalogue of Canadian Railroad Cancellations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 53pp.
Published by the author, 1944
Shaw, T.P.G. (Revised and edited by Ludlow, L.M.)
‘The Catalogue Section of the Handbook of Canadian
Transportation Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 143pp
Published by the British North American Philatelic Society,
1975.
A pure listing, including RPOs and stations (depots), arranged
by region, including Newfoundland. To be used
in conjunction with the History by
Gillam. Updated version of the Shaw catalogue of 1944.
Central America
Vandervelde, V.D.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Central
America: An Introduction.’
Illustrated, b/w, 3pp.
Central American Newsletter, 1980s
Some notes on Costa Rica, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama
Ceylon
Kirby, R.
‘Travelling Post Offices of Ceylon.’
Illustrated, b/w, 5pp.
TPO: Vol. 33, No.3, pp49-53.
First published in 1948 and updated since. Comprehensive and
includes modern Sri Lankan cancels.
Walker, D.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Ceylon.’
Gibbons Stamp Monthly, August, 1979, pp56-58.
Description of the routes, postmarks and map. Update of
article by same author in Railway Philately, Vol. 4, No.1, December, 1969.
Walker, D.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Ceylon.’
Illustrated, b/w, 39pp., spiral bound.
Published by the Ceylon
Study Circle of Great
Britain, 1990.
A greatly expanded version of the earlier articles by the same
author.
Chile
Vamos Sz., E.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Chile.’
Illustrated, b/w, 29pp + 3 maps.
Published by Mobile Post Office
Society, USA, 1983.
Translation from Spanish article in Chile Filatelico. A
comprehensive but simplified listing of Chilean TPO routes and their
cancellations, with a short historical introduction.
China
Padget, P.I.
‘The Train Post Office Postmarks of China.’
Illustrated, b/w, 13pp.
TPO: Vol. 29 No.3, pp56-59; Vol. 30, No.1, pp12-16; Vol. 30,
No.2, pp31-34; Vol 31, No.1, pp27-28. 1975/77.
Padget, P.I. et al
‘Chinese TPO Handstamps.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 19, No.5, pp156-158; vol. 19, No.6, pp195-197; Vol.
20, No.1, pp16-18; Vol. 20, No.2, pp44-49; Vol. 20, No.3, pp75-76; Vol. 20,
No.4, pp121-124; vol. 20, No.5, pp152-153, 1965/6
Colombia
Costa Rica
‘Notes on the Railroads and the Ambulante Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 20pp.
The Costa Rican Philatelist: The notebook of Los Aficionados
Costaricenses. Vol. 3, No.1, pp1, 2, 9, 10; Vol. 3, No. 2, pp11, 12; Vol. 3,
No.3, pp21, 22, 29; Vol. 3, No.4, pp37-42; Vol. 3, No.5, pp46-48, Vol. 3 ,
No.6, p55; Vol. 4, No.1, p10, 1954/5.
Bossum, E.G.
‘Costa Rica Railroads
and Postal History.’
TPO: Vol. 22, No.3, pp75-79
Very little postal history included
See also under Central America
Cuba
Gordon, R.S.
‘RPOs in Cuba under USA.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol., 22, No.6, pp182-183
For the Spanish period see reference to Nathan, under Spain.
Cyprus
Hutchinson, I.K.
‘The Cyprus Government
Railway.’
Railway Philately, Vol. 8, No.2, March, 1974.
Deals with Cyprus RPO marks which were used at railway
stations and not on trains.
Martin, R.
‘The RPO marks of Cyprus.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 51, No.4, pp102-103; Vol. 52, No.1, pp24-25, 1997/8
Czechoslovakia
Gottsmich, S.
C.S.R. Revenue and Railway Stamps
Illustrated, b/w, 210 pp
Piublished by ORA Verlag Icking 1976 (Germany)
Votoček, E.
Monografie Československých známek (díl XIV)
Monograph of Czechoslovakian Philately, Vol. 14
Illustrated, b/w, 688pp.
Published by Profis, Prague, 1978.
With list of pre-1918 TPOs (pp 391-501). Text in Czech.
Votoček, E.
Monografie Československých
známek (díl XVI)
Monograph of Czechoslovakian Philately, Vol. 16
Illustrated, b/w.
Published by Profis, Prague.
With list of 1918-1920 TPOs (pp 309-370). Text in Czech.
Votoček, E.
Monografie Československých
známek (díl XIX)
Monograph of Czechoslovakian Philately, Vol. 19
Illustrated, b/w.
Published by Profis, Prague.
With list of 1919-1939 TPOs (pp 393-520). Text in Czech.
‘A List of Czechoslovakian TPOs used since 1956.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 42, No.3, pp55-56, 1988
A list of the routes with their numbers
Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)
Kidd, C.
‘Travelling Post Offices in the Sudetenland.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 42, No.2, pp33-41, 1988.
Treatment based on the author’s collection.
Honisch, H.M.
‘Travelling Post Office and Mailguard Postmarks of Czechoslovakia.’
TPO, Vol. 48, No.2, pp31-33; Vol. 48, No.3, pp75-79; Vol. 49,
No.1, pp22-23; Vol. 49, No.2, pp44-46; Vol. 50, No.4, pp95-97, 1994-1996
Dahomey
See under French Colonies
Denmark
Annholz, S.
‘Danske Poststempler’
Illustrated b/w
Published by Københavns Philatelist Klub, 1953
Thorough study of all Danish postmarks, including TPOs etc.
Goodbody, A.M.
The Railway Post Offices of Denmark
Illustrated, b/w, 27pp
Published by the Mobile Post office Society, USA, 1979
A straightforward listing including brief details of each
route.
Hovard, S.
‘De Danske Jernbanebureauer og
Deres Strempler, Del1, Øerne’
(The Danish Railway TPOs and their Postmarks.Vol. 1 The Islands)
Illustrated, b/w, 250pp.
Published by FG Nordische Staaten E.V., 1994
Detailed and comprehensive. Danish text.
Hovard, S.
‘De Danske Jernbanebureauer og
Deres Strempler, Del 2, Jylland’
(The Danish Railway TPOs and their Postmarks. Vol. 2 Jutland)
Illustrated, b/w, 296pp.
Published by FG Nordische Staaten E.V., 1995
Detailed and comprehensive. Danish text.
‘Postbefordringen I Inlandet.’
Not illustrated, 80pp
Generaldirektoratet for Post – og Telegrafvæsenet
Timetables of mail trains for June, 1957
Dominican Republic
Djibouti
See French Somali coast.
Dutch East Indies
Kidd, C.
‘Travelling Post Offices in Java.’
Illustrated, b/w, 3pp.
TPO: Vol. 32, No.1 pp17-19, 1978
A short article based on an article in ‘De Postzak’ of September
1950 by Heer J.P. Traanberg and items in the author’s collection.
East Africa (Kenya)
Kidd, C.
‘East African TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w, 3pp.
TPO: Vol. 29, No.1, pp16-18, 1975
Gathers together the known facts on the TPOs on the Uganda
Railway, 1901-1924. Further details in Vol.29, No.2.
Martin, R.
‘The Uganda Railway.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 49, No.1, p24; vol. 49, No.2, pp51-53, 1995
See also the article by J. Harvie Pirie under ‘Rhodesia.’
East Africa (Tanganyika)
Kidd, C.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Tanganyika.’
Illustrated, b/w, 5pp.
TPO: Vol. 35, No.3, pp63-67, 1981.
Comprehensive and includes the German period. (Update of an
article by the same author in 1956.)
Egypt
Smith,
P.A.S.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Egypt.’
Illustrated, b/w, 65pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1983.
A detailed and comprehensive listing of Egyptian TPO routes
and their cancellations. Substantial historical introduction. Developed from Egypt
Study Circle study.
Egyptian
Expeditionary Force
‘EEF Skeleton Handstamps.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, vol.22, No.1, pp11-14; Vol. 22, No.3, pp88-89; Vol. 22,
No.5, p165, 1968
El
Salvador
See under Central America
Estonia
Ojaste, E. & Osi, H.
‘Railway TPOs and Mail Transport on the Estonian Railways,
1918-1940.’
Illustrated, b/w, 11pp.
TPO: Vol. 38, No.3, pp56-66. 1984.
Updated and reprinted from Eesti Filatelist. Detailed and
comprehensive work.
Hurt, V.
‘Estonian Railway Mail and Postmarks. Russian Fore-Runners,
1870-1918.’
Illustrated, b/w, 6pp.
TPO: Vol. 38, No.4, pp86-91, 1984.
Complementary to the work by Ojaste & Osi, published in
the previous number.
Ojaste, E.
‘TPO Routes, Services and Cancellations in Estonia during
German Occupation, 1942-1944.’
Illustrated, b/w, 4pp.
TPO: Vol. 39, No.2, pp40-43, 1985.
Complements the articles in Vol. 38 Nos. 3 & 4.
(There is a large volume on Estonian Postal History in English
and German. Three chapters are devoted to the travelling post offices.
Details of title and author are sought. Published 1980s?)
Ethiopia
Payne, F.G.
‘TPOs in Ethiopia.’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 24, No.3, June, 1990
Finland
Franklin, N.C.
‘Finnish TPO Cancellations 1872-1917.’
Illustrated, b/w, 9pp.
Scandinavian Contact, vol. 11, No.6, pp182-191, 1983.
Simplified treatment in English
Hellman, K. & Itkonen, J.
‘The Helsinki-St.Petersburg Railway and the Finnish Postal
Compartment Cancellations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 27pp
Catalogue of ‘Finlandia 1988’ pp 76-103. (Reference doubtful)
Kidd, C.
‘Railway Post Offices of Finland.’
Illustrated, b/w, 17pp.
TPO: Vol.37, No.4, pp81-91; Vol. 38, No.1, pp17-20; Vol. 38,
No.2 pp40-42; Vol. 38, No.4, pp83-84, 1983/4.
Tester, H.E.
‘TPO Cancellations of Finland.’
Illustrated, b/w, 7pp
Scandinavian Collectors’ Club, Los Angeles Chapter, vol. 12,
No.7, pp1-8, 1980.
Classification based on type of postmark
Tielinen, Y.E.
‘Postivaunujen no. (xx) leimat.’
(Postal Wagon No. (xx) cancels.)
Illustrated, b/w, 28pp.
Published serially in a Finnish philatelic magazine, 1972-1975
(one part probably published in 1967.)
Definitive listing of Finnish TPO marks. Every type of mark
for each route listed chronologically and numbered, with text, dates of use
and identifying characteristics. Complete to early 1950s.
France
Bonnevie, A. ‘Obliterations Ferroviaires de France, Catalogue
philatelique.’
(French Railway Pictorial Cancellations, 1914-2002)
Chase, C. & de Beaufond, E.H.
‘Catalogue des Cachets des Bureaux Ambulants de France de
l’origine à 1900.’
Illustrated, b/w, 58pp.
Les Editions E.H. de Beaufond, Paris, 1951.
Definitive work including entry marks, up to 1900.
Chase, C.
‘Catalogue des Cachets des Courriers-Convoyeurs (France,
Algérie et Tunisie) de l’origine à 1900. Les Bôites Mobiles, Les Cachets de
Gares.’
Illustrated, b/w, 126pp.
Les Editions E.H. de Beaufond, Paris, 1954
Definitive work including courriers-convoyeurs-stations and
courriers-convoyeurs-lignes, moveable boxes and station marks, also Algeria and Tunisia, up to
1900.
Goodbody, A.M.
‘An Introduction to French Railway Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 14, No.1, pp14-18, Dec., 1979.
Goodbody, A.M.
‘An Introduction to the Railway Station Postmarks of France.’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 12, No.1, Dec., 1977, pp3-5
Knepper & Pochet,
‘La Poste et Le Rail’
Illustrated b/w and colour, 207pp hardback
La Vie du Rail, Paris
Lesgor, R. & Minnigerode, M.
‘The Cancellations on French Stamps of the Classic Issues,
1849-1876.’
Illustrated, b/w, 10pp (Plus tabulated information)
The Nassau Stamp co., New York, 1948
Chapter IV covers railway postmarks.
Lorne, H.
‘Catalogue des Cachets des Bureaux de Passe.’
Illustrated, b/w, 23pp.
Les Editions E.H. de Beaufond, Paris, 1954.
‘La Poste Ferroviaire
de ses Débuts à 1870.’
(Encyclopédie des Timbres-Poste de France: Tome II, Fascicule
1.)
Published by the Acadamie de Philatelie, 1992.
Treats the early development of the French TPOs and
Courriers-Convoyeurs. Text in French.
Pothion, J.
‘Catalogue Bureaux Ambulants 1845-1965, Cachets de Gares
1854-1960’
Illuistrated b/w 71pp
La Poste aux Lettres, 1978
ISBN 2-85374-012-9
Pothion, J.
‘Catalogue des Cachets Courriers-Convoyeurs-Lignes.’
Illustrated, b/w, 78pp.
Published by the author (?), 1965
A pure listing, giving for each postmark a price in francs. Algeria included in
a separate list. French text.
Pothion, J.
‘Catalogue des Cachets Courriers-Convoyeurs-Lignes 1877-1966
Illustrated, b/w, 87pp
ISBN 2-85374-005-6
Pothion, J.
‘Catalogue Cachets de Gares, 1854-1960.’
Illustrated, b/w,
La Poste aux Lettres, 1975
A pure listing with prices, for France only.
French text
Pothion, J.
‘France Bureaux
Ambulants, 1845-1965.’
Illustrated, b/w, 28pp.
La Poste aux Lettres, Paris, 1975.
ISBN 2-85374-002-1
A pure listing, giving for each postmark a price in francs. Algeria and
Colonies are not included. French text.
Pothion, J.
‘Catalogue des Cachets Courriers-Convoyeurs-Lignes 1877-1966.’
Illustrated, b/w, 87pp.
Published by La Poste aux Lettres, Paris 1979
ISBN 2-85374-015-3
Pothion, J.
‘France Bureaux Ambulants, 1845-1965, Cachets de Gares
1854-1960’
Illustrated, b/w, 36pp relate to TPOs out of a total 77pp.
La Poste aux Lettres, Paris, 1986.
ISBN 2-85374-033-1
(Slightly reduced page size, update of 1978 edition – eg
new1238B)
Robinson, A.
‘The Postal Markings of the Bureaux de Passe, 1864-1882.’
Illustrated, b/w, 29pp.
France & Colonies Philatelic Society, of G.B., 1977
‘Catalogue Spécialisé des Timbres de France.’ Tome II XXe
siècle (1re partie)
Illustrated, b/w, 320pp.
Editions Yvert & Tellier, 1982.
The section on ‘La Poste Ferroviaire’ contains information not
readily available elsewhere, e.g. on the Military TPOs of the Great War.
France
(Réunion)
Ibbotson, P.
‘Réunion Railway Cancellations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp.
Stamp Collecting, June
24th, 1976, pp1007, 1009.
Description of the line, postmarks, usage and map.
French
Colonies
Waugh, W.M.
‘Railway Mail in the French African and Indian Ocean
Colonies.’
Illustrated, b/w, 40pp.
France & Colonies Philatelic Society, USA, 1987
French
Equatorial Africa
See under French Colonies
French Guinea
See under French Colonies
French Somali Coast
See under French Colonies
French
Soudan
See under French Colonies
German South West Africa
Vogenbeck, P.
‘Nebenstempel und Dienstsiegel von
Deutsch-Südwestafrika.’
Illustrated, b/w, 300pp
Published by the author, 1999.
The final 25pp deal with the railway markings.
See also under South
Africa
Germany
Becker, M.
‘Die Geschichte der Bahnpostbeförderung auf der Harzquer-und Brockenbahn’
No further details
Bromann-Schmidt, H.:
Die Bahnposten der Deutschen
Dienstpost Niederlande,
Heft 2 der bp Schriftenreihe der
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bahnpost, Eigenverlag 2002
Bufe, S.
‘Eisenbahnen in West und
Ostpreussen’
Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, 1986
Illustrated, b/w. German text
ISBN 3-922138-24-1
Includes chapter on (e.g.) ‘Last German TPO from Berlin to East
Prussia.’
Dahmann, J.
‘Deutsche Dienstpost Osten WWII’
TPO Vol.5, p.192; Vol.6, pp.49/50; Vol.8, p.59
Dreise, W.
‘Postbeföderung auf Eisenbahnen zur Zeit des Norddeutschen Postbezirkes.’
No further details
Garnier, I. Von,
‘Katalog der Bahnpoststempel 1868
bis 1871 (Des Norddeutschen Post bezirks),
Published by the
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Norddeutscher Postbezirk e.V., 2004,
238 pp.
Goldstein, H.
‘German Chief TPO Office Identification.’
Not illustrated
TPO: Vol. 19, No.2, pp52-53, 1965
Deals with the bahnpostamter.
Goldstein, H.
‘Registered Labels of the German TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp
TPO vol.10, No.3,, 1956
Goldstein, H.
‘The BPAs/TPO Offices of Germany.’
Not illustrated.
Stamp collecting, 6th October, 1977, p535.
Hambach, Günther
‘Bahnposten’
In Archiv für deutsche
Postgeschichte 2/74
Illustrated b/w, 2 pp
In German
Köhler, G.H.
‘Post und Tram.’
Illustrated, b/w (a few colour plates), 384pp
Published by the author
ISBN 3-7826-0156-4
An excellent book dealing with the carriage of mail by tram.
The first 250 pages deal with Germany, followed
by Austria and the
rest of the world.
Köhler, Günter H. and Claus
Seelemann
Postbeförderung mit Straßenbahnen
im südlichen Deutschland und in Elsaß-Lothringen
Illustrated, b/w 84 pp
In Archiv für deutsche
Postgeschichte 2/88
In German
Konrad, R.
‘Katalog der Bahnpoststempel’
No further details
Körting, Herbert
Entstehung und Weiterentwicklung
der grenzüberschreitenden deutschen Bahnposten
Illustrated, 40 pp
In Archiv für deutsche
Postgeschichte S/84
In German
Miosga, H.
130 Jahre Bahnpost in Deutschland
– Entwicklungsgeschichte de deutschen Bahnpostwagen von 1849-1979.’
Illustrated, b/w (Plus 9 colour prints), 144pp
Archiv für deutsche
Postgeschichte. Heft 1/1980
ISBN 0003-8989
Concerned mainly with TPO rolling stock, but contains a useful
list of Bahnpostamter (regional TPO
HQ).
In German
Noel, G.
‘From Russia & Poland Entry
Marks.’
Illustrated, b/w 3pp
TPO, Vol.12, No.3
Pfeiffer, W.J.
‘Deutsche Dienstpost Nederlande’
TPO Vol.5, p.159
Rappl, B. ‘Deutsche Ganzsachen mit dem Motive Eisenbahn-Strassenbahn,
Eigenverlag, 1994
Redwitz, H. Deutsche Sonder u Werbestempel mit dem Motiver Eisenbahn (ohne
DDR) 3 Auflage, 1991, BSG Nürnberg
Redwitz, H. Freistempel mit dem Motiv Eisenbahn im Bereich der Deutschen
Bundespost, Von 1948-1990 inclusive Berlin (West), 2. auflage 1992, BSG
Nürnberg.
Vandervelde, V.D.
‘Vom Ausland uber Bahnpost.’
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp
TPO: Vol. 25, No.3, pp71-72, 1971.
Zirkenbach, K.
‘Deutsche Dienstpost Polen 1914-18’
TPO Vol.5, p.192; Vol.6, p.122; Vol.13, p.13, Vol.15, p.46; vol.16, p.119;
vol.19, p.178.
‘Deutsche Dienstpost Belgien 1915’
TPO Vol.5, p.132; Vol.6, p.122; Vol.8, p.59, p.103; Vol.12, p.107; Vol.14,
p.155; vol.19, p.178.
‘Deutsche Dienstpost Polen 1942.’
TPO Vol.8, p.59; Vol.19, p.178; Vol.27, p.106
‘Deutsche Dienstpost Ukraine 1943’
TPO Vol.12, p.11
‘Handbuch des Bahnpostwesens.’
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bahnpost
e.V., 1993
Description of Bahnpost in Baden,
Bavaria, Hannover, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Preußen, Sachsen,
Schleswig-Holstein, Thurn & Taxis, Württemberg, Norddeutscher Bezirk,
Deutsche Reichspostverwaltung, Deutsch Kolonien, Deutsche Besetzungsgebiete,
Abstimmungsgebiete, Deutsche Bundespost
Not completed yet, illustrated b/w, ca. 400 pp
In German
‘Katalog der unter deutscher
Postverwaltung verwendetenBahnpoststempel.’
Illustrated with every illustrated b/w cancellation, in
alphabetical order of the stations
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bahnpost
e.V., 1995-2004,
In German
‘The History of the Travelling Post Office.’
Not illustrated, 9pp.
Journal of Germany and
Colonies Philatelic Society, 1960s?
‘Vom Auslande uber Bahnpost.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 41, No.4, pp79-85, 1987
Germany (Alsace-Lorraine)
Goldstein, H.
‘TPOs in Alsace-Lorraine in World War II’
Illustrated, b/w, 1p
TPO: Vol. 25, No.6, p187, 1971.
Illustrates four types of mark and lists the routes on which
they were used.
Germany (Baden)
‘Railway Postal Markings of Baden.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: The Quarterly Journal of the TPO & Seapost Sociery,
Vol. 19, No.5, pp164-166; Vol. 20, No.2, pp42-44, 1965/6
Germany (Bavaria)
Kittl, J.
‘Die Stempel der bayerischen
Bahnposten.’
Illustrated, b/w, 7pp.
Archiv für Postgeschichte in
Bayern, Nr. 2, December, 1950, pp156-162.
A historical survey of the types of TPO postmarks used on the
Bavarian TPOs. No checklist is given of the routes or their postmarks.
Kittl, J. (Translated by H. Goldstein)
‘The TPO Marks of Bavaria.’
Illustrated, b/w, 8pp.
TPO: Vol. 25, No.4, pp110-113; No.5, pp154-157, 1971
Study of postmarks with dates of use of various types, of
which 43 are illustrated. There is no checklist of routes.
‘The Double Circle TPO Marks
of Bavaria.’
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp.
TPO: Vol. 32, No.2, pp38-39; Vol. 32, No.3, p49, 1978
Introduction and checklist of double circle marks only.
Reissermayer, H.
‘100 Jahre Bahnpost in Bayern.’
Illustrated, b/w, 15pp.
Archiv für Postgeschichte in
Bayern, Nr. 2, December, 1950, pp142-156.
Germany (Democratric Republic)
Goldstein, H.
‘Current TPOs of East
Germany.’
Not illustrated
TPO: Vol24, No.2, pp40-41; Vol. 24, No.3, pp79-80, 1970
A list of the routes in 1970.
Körting, H. & Rendel, J.
’Zur Entwicklung des Bahnpostwesens in der ehemaligen sowjetischen
Besatzungzone und in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik.’
illustrated b/w, 12pp
Philatelistischer Bericht Nr.19, Philatelistenverband im KB der DDR,
Bezirksverband Leipzig, circa 1980
Brief history of TPO service in the DDR
Miosga, Harry
Bahnpostwagen in der Deutschen
Demokratischen Republik
Illustrated b/w, 23 pp
In Archiv für deutsche
Postgeschichte 2/82
Germany (Prussia)
Brüggener, H.
‘Development of the Post offices and TPOs at Berlin Stations
up to 1875.’
TPO: Vol. 22, No.4, pp118-121, 1968
Goldstein, H. ‘Life on the Early Prussian TPOs.’
‘Stamp Collecting,’ May 11th., 1972, pp529 &
531.
This is essentially the introduction to the next article.
Goldstein, H. ‘The TPOs of Prussia and their
Postmarks.’
Journal of the Postal History Society No.169, p127; No.170,
pp136-139. Circa 1971/2
Retzlaff, G. ‘The Introduction of the First TPO Postmarks.’
(i.e. in Germany)
Germania, October, 1981, pp262-267.
Ritter, R. ‘The Bahnpost in Upper
Silesia.’
Germania, November, 1994 pp193-201
Taylor, B.C.
‘The Railway Travelling Post Offices of Prussia.’
TPO: Sept.-Oct., 1951, pp139-142
Deals with numeral cancels in concentric circles
Zirkenbach, K.
‘The German three-line Railroad Cancel.
Not illustrated, 14pp.
Article from ‘Der deutsche Samler, 1939 Nos. 9-11.
Translated into English by E. Haide.
Published by the translator (?)
A pure listing of the Prussian type of three line cancellations compiled from
the author’s collection.
Germany (Saar)
Green, Mrs. D.M.
‘The Railways of the Saar District of Germany,
1852-1935.’
Illustrated, b/w, 7pp.
Railway Philately, Vol. 3, No.2, 1969.
Comprehensive article with introduction, map, list of routes
and illustrations of the postmarks.
Germany (Saxony)
Wagner, W.
‘Die Bahnpost auf der sächsischen
Schmalspurbahnen’
Illustrated b/w & colour,
100pp
EK-Verlag, Postfach 5560, 79022
Freiburg
ISBN 3-88255-436-3, 1998
Wende, J.
‘Die Bahnpost im Königreich
Sachsen.’
Illustrated, b/w, 30pp.
Forschungsgemeinschaft Sachsen im
BDPh e.V., 1982
Comprehensive treatment including TPO and station marks.
German text.
Germany (Thurn & Taxis)
(Articles in TPO Vol.6, p.141, p195; Vol.11, p42, p140)
Germany (Thüringen)
Zirkenbach, K.
‘The TPOs of Thuringia, 1872-1962
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp
TPO: The Quarterly journal of the TPO & Seapost Society,
Vol. 18, No.1, pp4-5, Vol. 18 No.2,
pp39-40p; Vol. 18, No.3, pp71-72; vol. 18, No.5, pp136-138; Vol. 18,
No.6, p181; Vol. 19, No.1, pp19-21; Vol. 19, No.2, pp73-74; Vol. 19, No.3,
pp109-110; vol. 19, No.4, pp131-132, 1964/5.
Essentially a list of TPOs which operated in Thuringia.
König, Herbert
Eisenbahnen und Postwesen in
Thüringen
Article in Archiv für deutsche
Postgeschichte 1/88
98 pp with b/w illustrations and a coloured map of Thüringen
Germany (Württemberg)
Ehrler K.
Die Bahnstempel der
Koniglich-Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahn
Die Bahnpost in Württemberg.
EMS: Nos.139, 141,142,143 1999-2000
In German – illustrated 12pp
Stoecker, E.
125 Years of Travelling Post offices in Württemberg.’
Illustrated, b/w, 3pp.
TPO: Vol. 33, No.2, pp43-45, 1979.
Gold
Coast/Ghana
McCaig, C.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of the Gold Coast.’
Illustrated, b/w, 9pp typescript duplicated booklet.
The Gambia, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone Study circle. C1960?
A useful study of an elusive subject with descriptions,
listing and illustrations of all known marks.
Martin, R.
‘TPO Postmarks of Ghana.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 53, No.4, Winter, 1999, pp117-120
Great Britain
Blackman, G.J. & Pipe, W.T.
‘Postmarks of British Railway Stations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 92pp
Railway Philatelic Group.
ISBN 0 901667 22 6
Goodbody, A.M.
‘An Introduction and Guide to the Travelling Post Offices of Great
Britain.’
Illustrated, b/w, 16pp.
Railway Philatelic Group, 1983 (2nd. Edition).
ISBN 0 901667 17 X
Treats the British TPO network as it was in 1983.
Goodbody, A.M.
‘The Railway Sub Offices of Great
Britain.’
Illustrated, b/w, 32pp
Railway Philatelic Group, 1983
ISBN 0 901667 16 1
A list of railway sub offices and dates of postmark usage.
Harvey, A.
‘Travelling Post Offices & Bag Tenders of Great
Britain & Ireland, an
Operational History from 1859 to 1959.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO & Seapost Society
Hill, N.
‘The Railway Travelling Post Offices of Great
Britain and Ireland,
1838-1975.’
Illustrated, b/w, 24pp.
Harry Hayes, 1977.
ISBN 0 905222 33 4
Listing and historical details of TPO routes. Not
comprehensive as far as postmarks are concerned.
Johnson, P.
‘The British Travelling Post Office.’
Illustrated, b/w, 104pp
Ian Allan, 1985
ISBN 0 7110 1459 0
Johnson, P.
‘Mail by Rail.’
Illustrated, b/w, 128pp
Ian Allan, 1995
ISBN 0 7110 2385 9
Kerr, G.
‘Letter Boxes on Trains and Busses’
Illustrated b/w, 13pp
Article in ‘Tramway Review’ vol. 20, No.156, Winter 1992
(pp137-149)
ISSN 0041-1019
Kidd, C.
‘The Irish Mail.’
Illustrated, b/w, 29pp.
TPO & Seapost Society, 1996.
ISBN 0 9518726 1 3
Nock, O.S.
‘Scottish Night mails of the LMSR.’
Illustrated, b/w, 22pp
The Railway Magazine No.573, pp3-13; No.574, pp75-79; No.575,
pp157-162, 1948
Describes the ‘specials’ from a railway angle.
Roberts, G.P. & Stubbs, R.M.
‘TPO Postmarks of Great Britain, 1962-1990.’
Illustrated, b/w, 73pp.
TPO & Seapost Society, 1991
ISBN 0-9518726-0-5
Scottish Postmark Group
‘The “EDINR M” Postmark’
Illustrated, b/w, 6pp
Article from the ‘Official Souvenir Handbook of the 50th
Anniversary Celebrations of the Edinburgh P.S.
Published by the Society, 1977.
Taylor, F.W.
‘Mailguard Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 32, No.3, June, 1988.
Ward, C.W.
‘English TPOs – Their History and Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 106pp.
Published by the author, 1940s?
For many years this was the definitive work.
Ward, C.W.
‘Scottish TPOs – their History and Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 28pp.
Published by the author, 1940s?
Wilson, F.J.
‘Great Britain & Ireland Travelling
Post Office Postmarks: A Guide and Catalogue.’
Not illustrated, 84pp.
Railway Philatelic Group, 1985
ISBN 0 901667 20 X
The only listing which gives valuations
Wilson, H.S.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Great
Britain & Ireland: Their
History and Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 300pp.
Railway Philatelic Group, 1996
ISBN 0 901667 23 4
The definitive work by the leading exponent of the subject
‘The Northern Belle.’
TPO: Vol.27, No.2, pp41-42, 1973
An account of the luxury train of the 1930s and its cachets.
Great
Britain
(Army)
Eaton, J
‘Divisional Trains and Railheads.’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 24, No.1, Dec., 1989, pp16-17
Stubbs, R.
‘British Expeditionary Force Main Line TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 52, No.3, Autumn, 1998, pp88-89
‘British Army TPO, North Russia.’
Illustrated, b/w.
TPO: Vol.22, No.2, pp40-44; Vol. 22 No.5, pp150-152, 1968
‘BEF Main Line TPO.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 23, No.3, pp67-70, 1969
Greece
‘Current Greek Travelling Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp30-31, 1975
Guyana
See British Guiana
Guatemala
TPO: Vol. 14, p175
Visser, J.P.
‘TPOs of Guatemala’
Not illustrated
TPO: Vol. 19, No.5, p172, 1965.
Bayliss, D.
‘Some Notes on Guatemala
Ambulantes.’
Not illustrated, 1p.
Central American Newsletter, No.12, published by the Spanish
Main P.S., June, 1983.
Notes amplifying a display given to the Society and the
section ‘Ambulantes’ in ‘Guatemala 2’,
pp595-601 published by Robson Lowe for the International society of Guatemala
Collectors.
Clough, G.K.
‘Guatemala’s
Railroads; Travelling Postal Agencies and their Postmarks and Cancellations.’
Not illustrated, 13pp.
This is apparently a chapter from ‘Guatemala; a Handbook
on the Postal History and Philately of Guatemala,’ published by Robson Lowe,
1974 (2 volumes).
I suspect it first appeared in ‘El Quetzal,’ the Journal of
the International Society of Guatemala Collectors, starting with issue No.
127, January, 1961, pp4-6, then No.128, February, 1961, pp4-8, then pp38-43
of a subsequent issue.
Honduras
TPO: Vol. 12, p33, p54.
Hungary
Kostyán Ákos
‘A Magyar Bélyegek Monográfiája VI.
A Magyar Postaigazatás Bélyegzöi, 1867-1967.’
Illustrated, b/w, 831pp.
Közlekedési Dokumentációs Vállalat, 1973
Definitive and very detailed work on Hungarian postmarks. Part
4 (pp693-822) deals with TPOs. Railway station marks (pálya udvar) are
scattered throughout the rest of the text, which is in Hungarian.
(N.B. there are also interesting examples in Volume II)
Benford, M.
‘Hungarian Railways and the Post.’
Illustrated, b/w
Stamp Collecting, 10
July, 1980, pp147-153
A useful introduction to the subject in English
Benford, M
‘The Visszatert Period in Hungarian Philately.’
Illustrated, b/w, 154pp
Published by the author
ISBN 0 9504552 3 7
Chapter 3 contains an account of the travelling post offices,
which operated in those parts of Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia temporarily
re-occupied by Hungary in 1938.
Christian, R.L.
Early Hungarian TPOs
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 28, No.1, pp5-6; No.2, pp40-41; No.3, pp64-65; No.4,
pp90-92; No.5, pp127-129, 1974.
A detailed treatment covering routes 1-11 only.
India
Haines, C.
‘Railway Mail Service Sections, 1924-1940.’
Not illustrated
India Post: The Journal
of the India Study circle for Philately: Vol. 31, No.2, pp46-53; Vol. 31,
No.3, pp93-99; Vol. 31, No.4, pp149-155; Vol. 32, No. 1, pp29-30; Vol. 32,
No.2, pp59-66; Vol. 32, No.3, pp113-120, 1997/8.
Essential for translating the coded postmarks into routes.
Martin, D.R.
‘Indian Travelling Post Offices, 1864-1891.’
Illustrated, b/w, 40pp.
Robson Lowe, ltd., 1969.
Descriptive with historical introduction, maps, etc. Not
apparently comprehensive as regards postmarks and (because of the date
restriction) no help with the later all-India marks.
‘RMS/TPO Study Group Progress Reports Nos.1-6
Illustrated, b/w, 22pp
Published by the India
Study Circle, 1966
Detailed study to the end of the 1870s with references to earlier
works by Renouf, Cooper and Robson Lowe.
India (Cochin)
Mooss, N.S.
‘The Railway Mail Service of Cochin.’
TPO: Vol. 20, No.5, pp136-138
India (Jaipur)
‘Early Jaipur State TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 28, No.6, pp145-148, 1974
Indo China
Goodbody, A.M.
‘Railways of Tonkin and their
Travelling Post Offices
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 58, No.3, pp85-89, 2004; Vol. 58 No.4, p. 105
Iran
Iraq
There is a single reference in the TPO Cumulative Index
(Vol.4, o.21)
Ireland
Goodbody, A.M.
‘Irish Railway Station Offices.
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 17, No.4, Sept., 1983, pp88-90
Ward, C.W.
‘Irish TPOs – Their History and Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 16pp.
Published by the author, 1940s?
See also under Great
Britain (H.S. Wilson)
Israel
Vandervelde, V.D.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Israel, part I: The Ottoman
Empire.’
Illustrated, b/w, 11pp.
TPO: Vol. 29, No.2, pp22-23; Vol. 29, No.3 pp63-67; Vol. 29,
No.4, pp89-91; Vol. 30, No.1, P.17, 1975/6.
A compilation of material previously available from widely
scattered sources.
Vandervelde, V.D.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Israel, part I: The Ottoman
Empire (Continued).’
Illustrated, b/w, 9pp.
TPO: Vol. 32, No.1, pp7-15, 1978.
Additional information, which came to light after the
publication of the original series of articles.
Italy
Cattani, A.
‘Catalogo degli annullamemnti italiani ambulanti ferroviari -
lacuali marittimi 1851-1890’
Illustrated, b/w, 142pp
Associazione per lo Studia della Storia Postale, 1996
Dehn, R.A.
‘Travelling Post Offices in the Kingdom of Italy.’
Illustrated, b/w, 18pp.
TPO: Vol. 37, No.2, pp44-48; vol. 37, No.3, pp58-70, 1983.
Introduction and dated lists of routes with representative
cancellations illustrated.
N.B. See note after ‘G. Bock’ under Austria.
Dehn, R.A.
‘T.P.O.s on Routes to Italy’s Northern
Frontiers.’
Illustrated, b/w, 5pp
Philatelic Magazine, January 1979 pp289-297 (odd numbered pages only)
Italy (Sardinia)
Dehn R.A.
‘TPOs in Sardinia’
A few lines only
TPO: Vol. 49, No.3, p70, 1995
Italy (Sicily)
Alabiso, A.
‘Posta per Ferrovia in Sicilia.’
Illustrated, b/w, 135pp
Palermo, 1994
Ivory Coast
See under French Colonies
Jamaica
Topaz, R. et al.
‘Jamaica Railway Town Cancellations
Part I.’
Illustrated, b/w
British Caribbean Philatelic Journal, Vol. 16, No.5, Oct.,
1976, pp137-144
N.B. Part II is probably in Vol. 17, No.1, pp10-16. Subsequent
parts ??
Watson, J.
‘Jamaica, 125th
Anniversary of the Railway.’
Illustrated, b/w
Gibbons Stamp Monthly, May, 1971, pp312-316
Some details of the TPO cancels at the end of the article
which was apparently based on one in The American Philatelist, Vol. 76, No.5,
Feb. 1963, pp343-4.
‘Jamaica: The
Government Railway and Associated Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 45, No.2, summer, 1991, pp27-29
Japan
Braybrook, A.H.
‘An Introduction to the Railway Travelling Post Offices of Japan’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 1, No.1, 1966. pp14-16
Fujii, K.
‘The Outline of Railway Post Office Postmarks in Japan.’
Illustrated, b/w, 4pp
Publisher?
Robertshaw, D.A.
‘Japanese Railway TPO Cancellations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 12pp.
Published by the author (?), date?
Based on collections rather than official sources.
Spaulding, R.M., Jr.
‘Time Indications in Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 10pp
Japanese Philately, vol. 23, No.4, 1968
Not specifically about TPOs but includes information on how
time, direction and trip number were shown in different types of TPO
postmarks.
‘The Railway Mail Service of Japan.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 28, No.3, pp61-63; Vol. 28, No.5, pp115-117, 1974
Based on information supplied by Tokyo GPO, 1951.
Jordan
‘Jordanian TPOs’
TPO: Vol.20, No.5, pp133-136, 1966
TPO: Vol. 28, No.3, pp53-54, 1974
Kenya
See under East Africa. See also
the work by J. Harvie Pirie mentioned under ‘Rhodesia.’
Korea
Latvia
Engel, E.
‘The Railroad Mail of Latvia.’
Illustrated, b/w
The American Philatelist, April, 1988, pp337-341.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Latvia.’
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp.
TPO: Vol. 36, No.2, pp25-26, 1982.
Introduction and list of routes for the period 1920-1941
‘Lettland Handbuch Philatelie und
Post-geschichte, Die Stempel.’ (Handbuch-5) (pp27, 89/90, 244-249)
Illustrated b/w
Harry Hofmann Verlag, Postfach
520518, D-2000, Hamburg 52
ISBN 7-7636-5061-X, 1987/88
Lebanon
‘Lebanese Rupublic Courriers-Convoyeurs.’
TPO: Vol.38, No.2, p27
Postmarks from three routes illustrated.
Lithuania
Kidd, C. & Visser, J.P.
Lithuania-The
Travelling Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w, 12pp.
TPO: Vol. 37, No.2, pp27-38, 1983.
Deals mainly with the independent period but includes an
introduction to the Russian TPOs through Lithuania.
Is there a Harry Hofmann book similar to the ‘Lettland
Handbuch’ but dealing with Lithuania?
Luxemburg
Englebert, R.
‘Cachets Ambulants du Grande-Duche
de Luxembourg.’
Publisher unknown, 50pp, 1961
Kidd, C.
‘The Railway Postmarks of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.’
TPO: Vol. 39, No.4, pp84-94; vol. 40, No.1, p10
Useful update of an earlier article, with map.
Madagascar
Coles, C.W.E.
‘The Railway Postmarks of Madagascar.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 22, No.1, pp1-7
Spong, C.W.
Madagascar Rail and Mail Services
Illustrated, b/w, 102 pp
Indian Ocean Study Circle, 2003
ISBN 0 9526407 2 4
Walker M.
The Railway lines and TPOs of Madagascar
Published in Newsletter of the (South African) Railway
Thematic Group No 23, November 1991 2
pp
Details the different lines on the island and the TPO
postmarks used on them
See also under French Colonies.
Malaya
Clayton, D.
‘Train Letters of Malaya.’
Illustrated, b/w, 5pp.
TPO: Vol. 37, No.2, pp39-43, 1983
Deals with letter boxes and cachets used on trains between Penang, Ipoh, Kuala
Lumpur and Singapore.
Malaya (Selangor)
‘RMS Selangor’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 19, No.5, pp153-155
Could this be ‘Railway Mail Service?’
Mauritius
Ibbotson, P.
‘Mauritius Travelling
Boxes’
Stamp Collecting, June
17th, 1971 pp745 & 747
Mexico
Lerpinière, P.E.
‘The TPOs of Mexico.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol.18, No.3, pp65-71; vol. 18, No.4, pp105-111; Vol. 18,
No.5, pp135-136; Vol. 18, No.6, pp184-185; Vol. 19, No.1, pp28-31; Vol. 19,
No.2, pp72-73; vol. 19, No.3, pp110-111; Vol. 19, No.4, pp134-135; Vol. 19,
No.5, p167; Vol.19, No.6, pp206-207; Vol. 20, No.1, pp23-24; Vol. 20, No.2,
pp49-50, 1964/6.
Morocco (French)
Morocco (Spanish)
Mozambique
Grethe W. & Walker M.
Travelling Post Office Cancels & Registration Labels, Railway
Tax Stamps and Railway Company Cancels of Mozambique
Part II Published in Newsletter of the (South African) Railway
Thematic Group No 17 May 1990 3 pp
Continues the detailed listing of marks and stamps used (My
first copy – must check for Part I)
Netherlands
Benders Et al.
‘Spoor en Post in Nederland.’
Illustrated, b/w, 296pp.
Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum, Utrecht, 1979
A comprehensive handbook dealing with all aspects of Dutch
railway philately, including TPOs, parcel and letter stamps, station handstamps,
etc.
Newfoundland
Kidd, C. & Cockrill, P.
‘Travelling Post Office Cancellations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 52pp
Philip Cockrill, 1987
Kidd, C.
‘Travelling Post Offices of Newfoundland.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 40, No.3, pp62-74
See also reference to Ludlow under Canada.
New Zealand
Johnstone, A.B. & Startup, R.M.
‘Mails By Rail in New
Zealand, History of the Raiwlay Travelling
Post Offices’
Illustrated, b/w, 206pp., H/B
Published by the Royal Philatelic Society of New
Zealand, 2001
ISBN 0-9597883-2-8
Ward, C.W.
‘New Zealand Marine
& Railway TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w, 20pp.
Published by the author, 1940s?
Nicaragua
Bayliss, D.
‘The Railway markings of Nicaragua.’
Illustrated, b/w, 3pp
TPO: Vol. 39, No.1, pp10-12, 1985.
Deals with the train letter box marks of Nicaragua
Nigeria
Ince, J.F.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Nigeria,
1903-1939.’
Illustrated, b/w, 31pp
West Africa Study circle,
McCaig, C.
‘The Nigerias – The
Travelling Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w, 9pp.
TPO: Vol. 30, No.3, pp71-79, 1976.
(Based on an article in the ‘London Philatelist’ for Jan/Feb.
1963)
River, railway and train letter box routes described, with
illustrations of the postmarks and cachets.
North
Borneo/Sabah
Kingston, H.
‘A New TPO for Sabah.’
TPO: Vol. 19, No.2, pp53-54, 1965
‘TPOs and the North Borneo Railway.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 52, No.4, Winter, 1998, pp104-105
Norway
Chambers, A.
‘Norwegian Travelling Post Offices, Part I, The Railway
Markings.’
Illustrated, b/w, 64pp.
Philip Cockrill, 1988
ISBN 0 947628 62 2
Extensive listing based on the author’s own collection, with
additions from other correspondents. Based on a series of articles in ‘TPO’
from Vol.32, No.4 (Winter 1978) to Vol.34, No.1 (Spring 1980).
Jackson, E.N.
‘Norwegian Railways Postal Connections and Cancellations.’
Illustrated, b/w, 72pp.
TPO & Seapost Society, 1997
Strong on railway history, with maps, but without the detailed
listing of postmarks found in the Chambers book.
Tiemer, J.
‘Katalog über Die Stempel der norwegischen
Bahnpostexpeditionen.’
(Catalogue of Norwegian Railway TPO Postmarks.)
Illustrated, b/w, 182pp
Forschungsgemeinschaft Nordische Staaten e.V. im BDPh e.V.
Arbeitsgruppe Norwegen, 1983, (second edition) 1989.
Comprehensive with illustrations of all postmarks and
histories of each line. German text.
Nyasaland
Harvey Pirie, J.H.
‘TPO Marks of Southern Africa- Nyasaland.’
Illustrated, b/w, 2pp
The South African Philatelist, August, 1959, pp140-141.
Hill, N.
‘The TPOs of Nyasaland.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vcol.27, No.4, pp99-102; Vol 27, No.5, pp134-136, 1973.
Lovejoy, G.
‘Travelling Post Offices of Nyasaland.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 46, No.2, Summer, 1992, pp35-37
Walker M.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Nyasaland’
Published in Newsletter of the (South African) Railway
Thematic Group No 18 August 1990, 1 page
Details the different lines in the colony and the TPO
postmarks used on them
See also under Portugal
Palestine
Dorfman, D.
‘Palestine TPOs,
1920-1938.’
Illustrated, b/w, 9pp.
TPO: Vol. 31, No.2, pp45-49; Vol 31, No.3, pp76-79, 1977.
Historical introduction, followed by an account of the
postmarks used. Acknowledges an article by Cyril Kidd in BAPIP Bulletin,
No.16, April, 1956.
Sacher, M.
‘The Postal Markings of Mandate Pallestine, 1917-1948.’
Illustrated, b/w, 522pp.
The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 1995.
ISBN 0 900631 30 9
The TPOs are dealt with on pp51-55; 126-128, 471, 509-514
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Alexander, Zvi:
Nablous–Caiffa : is the postmark
genuine, fake or a fabrication?.
Engl. — In: Holy Land Postal
History. No. 93/94, 2003, p.553.
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Alexander, Zvi:
T.P.O. Nablous–Caiffa : is the
postmark genuine, fake or a fabrication? / by Zvi
Alexander.
Engl. — In: OPAL. No. 209,
2004, p.20–21. — aut(tz).  |
[BUR. AMB. JAFFA-JERUSALEM / 1].
Engl. — In:
The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 33, 1960, p.16, xg. — aut(tz). 
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Vandervelde, V.D.:
The travelling post offices of Israel : part 1: the Ottoman Empire / V. Dennis
Vanderfelde.
Engl. — In: [unknown]. No.
[?], [?], p.1–20.
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Advance Items From The Research
Section : [Jerusalem–Jaffa T.P.O. Up].
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 15,
1955, p.11. — aut(tz). |
Collins, Norman J.:
Jerusalem–Jaffa travelling post
office : a unique cover combination 1898.
Engl. — In: OPAL. No. 180,
[?], p.36–37. |
Dorfman, David:
Mandate gem: T.P.O. cover ;
[JERUSALEM-LYDDA T.P.O.] / David Dorfman.
Engl. — In: The Israel
Philatelist. Vol. 58, 2007, no. 2, p.53. — aut(tz).
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Dorfman, David:
Palestine
TPO's : 1920–1938 / David Dorfman.
Engl. — In: T.P.O.. No. 2,
1977, p.[?].
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Hirst, Herman H.:
Bogus Haifa
TPO postmarks (1930) / [contrib. by DR. H.H. Hirst].
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin.
No. 80, 1974, p.10, xe. — aut(tz). |
Hirst, Herman H.:
D. Dorfman: Palestine TPO's :
1920–1938 ; [review TPO article] / H.H.H..
Engl. — In: The BAPIP
Bulletin. No. 90, 1977, p.20. — aut(tz).
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Jerusalem Jaffa "UP" TPO 1927:
Jerusalem
Jaffa
"UP" TPO 1927 : [late date 13.01.1927].
Engl. — In: The BAPIP
Bulletin. No. 44, 1963, p.8, xd. — aut(tz). |
Jerusalem Ludd TPO etc. ; [9 OC 20].
Engl. —
In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 23, 1957, p.3, xc. — aut(tz).
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Josephus [pseud.]:
Postal history problems :
[E.E.F. T.P.Os 1918–1920] / by Josephus.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin.
No. 65, 1970, p.22. — aut(tz). |
Josephus [pseud.]:
Postal history problems : [E.E.F.
T.P.Os 1918–1920] / by Josephus.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No.
67, 1970, p.21. — aut(tz).
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Kanner, Philipp:
Cancellations of the Syrian
Damascus–Haifa TPO on Palestine
stamps 1921/22 /
by P Kanner.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin.
No. 46, 1964, p.9. — aut(tz). |
Kanner, Philipp:
Postmarks of the Jerusalem–Lydda
T.P.O. 1935 / by P. Kanner.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 83,
1975, p.10, xc. — aut(tz).
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Kidd, Cyril:
Travelling post offices in Palestine.
Engl. — In: Gibbons Stamp Monthly. 1952, no.11, p.129.
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Kidd, Cyril:
Travelling post offices in Palestine
/ by Cyril Kidd.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 16, 1956, p.6–9, xb. — aut(tz). |
Ladany, S.P.:
An unrecorded Mandate travelling post
office postmark.
Engl. — In: Holy Land Postal History. No. 73/74,
1997, p.469. |
Lyness, Arthur A.:
Jerusalem–Lydda T.P.O. : [JSM
LYDDA TPO] / by Arthur. A. Lyness.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No.
39, 1962, p.17, xf. — aut(tz).
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Piphilaticus [pseud.]:
HKTPO North / Rafa-Haifa T.P.O. ; [OPAL piece] / by Piphilaticus.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 43, 1963, p.29. — aut(tz). |
Rafa Haifa T.P.O..
Engl. — In: The BAPIP
Bulletin. No. 73, 1972, p.16, xh. — aut(tz).
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Sacher, Michael M.:
Early Palestine
civil T.P.O. : [KATARA HAIFA
TPO SOUTH] / by Michael M. Sacher.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 83, 1975, p.14, xd. — aut(tz). |
Sacher, Michael M.:
More T.P.Os of the E.E.F. /
by Michael M. Sacher.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 39, 1962, p.14,
xc. — aut(tz).
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Sacher, Michael M.:
Notes on the T.P.Os of Palestine
: additional notes no. 2 / by M.M. Sacher.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 45, 1964, p.25, xj. — aut(tz). |
Sacher, Michael M.:
The travelling post offices of
Palestine / by M. Sacher.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 43,
1963, p.13–18, xf, xg. — aut(tz).
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Sacher, Michael M.:
T.P.Os of Palestine
: additional notes / by M.M. Sacher.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 44, 1963, p.14–15, xf. — aut(tz).
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Scotcher, William B.:
R.M.S / I.E.F. postmark /
W.B. Scotcher.
Engl. — In: The BAPIP Bulletin. No. 19, 1956, p.21. —
aut(tz).
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Panama
Canal Zone
‘Canal Zone Railway Post Office, Seapost
and Paquebot Markings.’
Illustrated, b/w.
Chapter 51 (pp403-410) of ‘Canal Zone Postage Stamps.’
Published by the Canal Zone Postal Service, 1961.
Not very authoritative for an official publication.
Paraguay
Bayliss, D.G.
‘Paraguayan Railway Markings.’
TPO: Vol.37, No.2, p.22, 1983
The author concludes that there were no TPOs in Paraguay.
Peru
Visser, J.P.
‘The Railways and their Postmarks’
TPO: Vol.36, No.3, 1982, pp61-64
Philippines
J.H. Tierney
‘Philippine RPOs’
TPO: Vol. 20, No.3, p76, 1966
See also reference to Nathan, under Spain
‘RPOs on the Manila Railway.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 52, No.4, 1998, pp99-101; Vol. 53, No.1, pp18-19;
Vol. 53, No.2, p42, 1998/9;
‘Railway P.O.s in the Philippines.’
TPO: Vol. 31, No.3, 1977, pp80-81
Details of the only two routes operating.
Poland
Berrisford, A.A. & Bojakowski, R.Z.
‘Polish Railway Travelling Post Offices, 1919-1939.’
Illustrated, b/w, 33pp
Published in ‘Dyliżans,’ the Journal of the Society for
Polish Philately in Great
Britain; Nos. 11-14, October 1998- July,
1999.
A list of known postmarks used between the wars.
Jasiak, L.
‘Listing of Polish TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 40, No.4, 1986, pp94-96
Current list of TPO routes.
Krogulski, Z.
‘Łacznosc portow morskich ambulansami w latach 1945-46’
Illustrated, b/w 9pp
No further details
Appears to describe TPO routes
in that part of Germany ceded to Poland in 1945
‘Travelling Post Offices in Poland’
Illustrated b/w, 2pp
TPO, Vol.55, No.3, 2001, pp86/87
Portugal
Kidd, C.
‘Railway Post Offices of Portugal.’
Illustrated, b/w, 21pp.
TPO: Vol. 36, No.2, pp28-35; Vol. 36, No.3, pp65-72; Vol. 36,
No.4, pp88-92, 1982.
Comprehensive work from the conception to the present.
Descriptions of the routes and postmarks with maps.
Magalhães, A.G. de
‘Marcofilia do Serviço Postal ambulante de Portugal e
Ultramar.’
Illustrated, b/w, 80pp.
Núcleo Filatélico do Ateneu
Comercial do Porto, 1986
Comprehensive treatment of TPO and mailguard routes with
illustrations of the postmarks in Portugal, Mozambique, Angola and
Portuguese India. There is a section at the end dealing with railway
stations.
Portuguese India
See under Portugal
Puerto Rico
See reference to Nathan under Spain.
Réunion
See under France (Réunion)
Rhodesia
Walker M.
The TPOs of Southern Rhodesia
Published in Newsletter of the (South African) Railway
Thematic Group No 20 February
1991 2 pp
An introduction to the introduction and operation of TPOs
between 1908 and 1921
Also lists a bibliography with the following additional work:
Harvey Pirie J.H.
‘Travelling Post Offices of Southern
Africa’
The South African Philatelist August 1958, August 1959 &
September 1959
Smillie, I.
‘Background to the Rhodesian TPO.’
Illustrated, b/w.
TPO: Vol. 18, No.1, pp8-10; Vol. 18, No.2, pp49-50, Vol. 18,
No.3, pp74-75; vol. 18, No.5, pp145-148; Vol 18, No.6, pp193-195, 1964.
See also under South
Africa
Romania
Marinescu, C.
‘Poşta Ambulantă Feroviară în România,
1869-1994.’
Illustrated, b/w, 305pp.
Buchurest, 1995.
Comprehensive treatment. Romanian text.
Vandervelde, V.D.
‘The Railway Posts of Roumania.’
Illustrated, b/w, 9pp.
TPO: Vol. 31, No.2, pp33-41, 1977.
“A detailed study of the railborne, wholly Roumanian
travelling post offices, prior to the First World War.” (The author)
Russia
Ashford, P.T.
‘Imperial Russian Stamps used in Transcaucasia. Part
Five-The Transcaucasian Railway.’
Illustrated, b/w, 60pp.
British Society of Russian Philately (B.J.R.P.), 1981
Devoted mainly to the TPOs of the Transcaucasian Railway,
namely the Poti-Tiflis-Baku line, also station post offices.
Ashford, P.T.
‘Postal Cancellations of the Trans-Caucasian Railway.’
Illustrated, b/w, 84pp
Published by the author, 1994, also addenda in B.J.R.P.,
No.79, 1995, pp36-42
Epstein, A.
‘TPOs on Military Railways of the Caucasian Front’
British Journal of Russian Philately, No.79, 1995, pp14/15
Illustrated b/w plus map.
Kiryushkin, A.V. & Robinson, P.E.
‘Russian Railway Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 180pp.
J. Barefoot, 1994
ISBN 0 906845 47 5
Stations and TPOs are treated for the Empire Period. There are
copious maps and illustrations.
Luchnik, N.V.
‘Russia’s Railroad
mails.’
Illustrated, b/w, 30pp
Sovietskii Kollektionner: English translation by R. Trbovich
published in ‘Rossica’ Journal, USA, 1974.
Comprehensive study of the Empire period to 1917, including
railway station marks.
Robinson, P.E.
‘Siberia: Postmarks and Postal History of
the Russian Empire Period’
Illustrated b/w, 160pp
Published by the author, 1986/7 with Supplement, 1997
ISBN 0 9511603 1 1
Senegal
See under French Colonies
Serbia
Visser, J.P.
‘The TPOs of Serbia.’
Illustrated, b/w, 5pp.
TPO: Vol. 32, No.3, pp53-57, 1978
Useful article which updates a series of articles which appeared
in the Viennese magazine ‘Die Postmarke’ by E. Derocco in 1932/3
entitled ‘The Postmarks of Serbia, 1843-1921.’
Sierra Leone
Kidd, C.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Sierra
Leone.’
Illustrated, b/w, 4pp.
TPO: Vol 39, No.1, pp6-9; Vol. 39, No.2, p31, 1985.
Update of an article originally published 30 years earlier.
McCaig, C.
‘Sierra Leone – the
Travelling Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w, 6pp.
The London
Philatelist, Jan-Feb. 1976
More comprehensive than the 1985 article by Kidd.
South
Africa
Drysdall, A. & Griffith, K.
‘The Travelling Post Offices of Imperial Military Railways.’
Illustrated, b/w, 75pp
Anglo-Boer War Philatelic society, 1997
ISBN 0 90138 05 9
Harvey Pirie, J.H.
‘South African War Train, 1941.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol. 22, No.4, pp111-112, 1968
South
Africa/South West Africa
Hagen, H.S. &
Naylor, S.P.
‘Railway Postal History of South
Africa.’
Illustrated, b/w, 279pp
Philatelic Foundation of Southern
Africa, 1998
The definitive work covering TPOs, railway letters, stations
and the railway official postcards.
‘Union of South
Africa List of Post and Telegraph Offices,
July 1912.’
Not illustrated, about 60 pages including Bechuanaland and Southern
Rhodesia.
Published by Dr. T.B. Berry and distributed by the Philatelic
Society of Johannesburg, 1973
Appendix I contains a list of Post and Telegraph Offices. Those at railway stations are shown in
italics. (The practice of using italics for this purpose persisted until
the end of railway agencies in 1994.)
South
Africa
(Transvaal)
Drysdall, A.R.
Transvaal, Railway Stamps and
Travelling Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w, 151pp,
James Bendon, 1997
ISBN 9963 579 75 2
Spain
Goldstein, H.
‘Spanish Tramway Mails.’
TPO: Vol.21, No.6, pp203-204; vol. 22, No.1, pp20-22, 1967/8
Nathan, N.S.
‘Ambulantes Y Marcas Ferroviarias de España y Colonias.’
(TPO & Railway marks of Spain and
Colonies. English and Spanish text.)
Illustrated, b/w, 228pp.
Colección Filatelica HOBBY, Madrid, 1979
ISBN 84-7132-024-X
Navarro, A.
‘Marcas Lineales de Estación Utilizadas como
Matasellos,’
56pp,
Expo Galeria, 2002
Catalogue of Spanish railway station cancellations (in
Spanish)
Ambulantes y Moviles
Journal of the ‘Grupo Tematico Ferroviario y de estudio del correo por
F.C. y carretera’
Details of Spanish TPOs and other railway philatelic
information – in Spanish
I have from No44 Nov 1985 to No 78 Oct 1991
Wilson, P.A.
‘The Ambulante Service.’
España – Magazine of the Spanish
Study Circle
Vol XXXIX No 2 p.4-9
1966
A brief introduction to the routes and types of markings
Spanish
Morocco
See reference to Nathan, under Spain.
Sudan
Dight, J.F.
‘Sudan: The Postal
markings of the Travelling Post Offices.’
Illustrated, b/w, 106pp.
Sudan Study Group, 1990
Sweden
Hellberg, P.
‘Sweden-Christmas TPOs.’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO, Vol. 53, No.3, Autumn, 1999, pp73-75
Hjertberg, P.
Postkupéexpeditioner postiljons- och postkupéer, 1868-1968.’
Not illustrated, 39pp
Wasa Frimärksaffär, Göteborg, 1978
A pure listing of the numbered Swedish TPO routes with dates.
Routes indicated by terminal points, initials of railway company and FKMB
marks are not included. Short historical introduction. Swedish text.
Jahr, K.
‘Liste over Svenske Bureauer (PKP).’
Not illustrated, b/w, 23pp.
Posthistorisk Tidsskrift, Denmark, 1975
A pure listing along the lines of the Hjertberg book.
Reher, B.
‘Bahnpost Polcirkeln-Narvik.’
Illustrated, b/w, 15pp
Polarphilatelie e.V., 1978
Lists all the routes which cross the Arctic
Circle.
Sjögren, E.
‘Svenska Järnvägssträckot med Nummerstämplar –PKXP, PLK PKP,
1868-1968.’
Illustrated, b/w, 108pp.
Frimärksaffären Christer Karlsson AB, 1990
Arranged geograqphically rather than numerically.
Again only the numbered routes are treated.
Wågerman, I.
‘Svensk Järnvägspost 1968-1988
Illustrated, b/w, 23pp
Published by the author
Facit Postal History/Postmark Catalogue
Frimarkshuset AB, 1982 (or
later editions)
The section ‘Järnvägspost/Railway Post’ is fully
comprehensive, including the routes indicated by initials or terminal points,
which are not covered by the other references.
‘Järnvägs Posten’
Illustrated, b/w with colour prints, 107pp.
Page One Publishing AB, Stockholm
(Stockholm Postal
Museum Publication.)
Switzerland
Goodbody, A.M.
‘The Railway Post Offices of Switzerland.’
Illustrated, b/w, 26pp plus map.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1982
A straightforward listing with brief details of each route.
Goodbody, A.M.
‘The Travelling Post offices of Switzerland,
1889-1901.’
Illustrated, b/w
Railway Philately, Vol. 25, No.2, pp45-54; Vol. 25, No.3,
pp75-83; Vol. 25, No.4, pp116-124; Vol. 26, No.1, pp14-24, 1990/1991
Müller, A.
‘Die schweizerischen Bahnpoststempel mit Linienangabe von
Beginn bis heute.’
(Swiss Railway Postmarks, with Data on the routes from their
Inception to the Present.)
Illustrated, b/w, 28pp
Zumstein, 1977
A listing by type of postmark, with dates and rarity factors.
Taiwan
Carver, M.R. (Mrs.)
‘Railway TPOs of Taiwan’
TPO: Vol.11, p.73
Sipols, B.
‘TPOs, 1974’
Illustrated, b/w
TPO: Vol.32, No.4, pp83-85, 1978
Lists 22 railway TPOs and 9 mobile P.O.s
Tanganyika
See under East Africa
Thailand
Langford, D.W.
‘The Railway Posts of Thailand.’
Illustrated, b/w, 3pp.
TPO: Vol. 31, No.4, pp92-94, 1975.
A short article covering the four routes.
Togo (French)
See under French Colonies
Togo (German)
Trinidad
‘Trinidad TPO’
TPO: Vol. 19, N0.4, pp123-125, 1965.
‘TPO Trinidad.’
TPO: Vol.27, Npo.3, pp65-67
Deals with the Arima Section only.
Tunisia
See under France
Turkey
Coles, J.H. & Visser, J.P.
‘TPOs 1948-1962’
TPO : Vol. 17, p95, p166, p185
Sipols, B.
‘Modern Turkish Railway TPOs.’
TPO: Vol. 31, No.3, p80, 1977.
Illustrates 11 TPO marks current in 1974
Uruguay
Vandervelde, V.D.
‘Estafeta Ambulante Ferro Carril’
TPO: Vol.38, No.2, p.37, 1984
TPO: Vol.39, No.1, p.16, 1985
U.S.A.
Beardsley, W.R. et al
‘The Streetcar Railway Postal Service in San Fransisco and
Seattle & Seattle R.P.O.’
Illustrated, b/w, 55pp.
Mobile Post office society, 1984
Booth, L.
‘The Street Railway Post Offices of Pittsburgh.’
Illustrated, b/w, 59pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1983
Carr, C.E.
‘Railway Mail Service: Its Origin and Development.’
Illustrated, b/w, 48pp
A.C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1909
Clark, D.N. & Ruckle, F.E.
‘The Street Railway Post Offices of Baltimore.’
Illustrated, b/w, 35pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1979
Heinen, R.J.
‘The Street Railway Post Offices of Boston.’
Illustrated, b/w, 46pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1981
Kay, J.L.
‘Directory of Railway Post Offices, Revised 1997.’
Not illustrated, 455pp.
Mobile Post Office society, 1997.
Kay, J.L.
‘Directory of Route Agent Routes, 1837-1882.’
Not illustrated, 170pp
Mobile Post Office society, 1990
Kay, J.L.
‘Directory of U.S. Route Agent Lines Revised Edition 2000.’
Not illustrated, 168pp
Mobile Post Office society, 2000.
MacDonald, F. & Towle, C.L.
‘The United
States Railway Post Office Postmark
Catalog, 1864-1977.’
Illustrated, b/w, 1000pp in 3 volumes.
Mobile Post Office Society, 1990s.
Illustrates and describes a truly astonishing number of
postmarks. Supersedes the 1977 publications below.
MacDonald, F.
‘The United
States Transit Markings Catalog, Volume
IV, 1996 Edition.’
Illustrated, b/w, 200+ pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, 1996.
Deals with Transfer Office and other miscellaneous markings.
Complementary to the MacDonald & Towle work above.
Mason, J.R. & Fleming, R.A.
‘The Street Car RPO Service in Chicago’
Illustrated, b/w, 72pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1983
Price, J.M.
The Street Railway Post Offices of Brooklyn and New York
City.’
Illustrated, b/w, 47pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1979
Schultz, R.G.
The Street Railway Post Offices of Saint
Louis.’
Illustrated, b/w, 56pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1984
Stanton, T.E. & Truax, R.A.
The Street Railway Post Offices of Washington, D.C.’
Illustrated, b/w, 44pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1983
Stets, R.J.
‘The Street Car R.P.O. Service in Philadelphia.’
Illustrated, b/w, 41pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1978
Stewart K.T. & Clark, D.N.
‘Streetcar R.P.O. Service in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Rochester.’
Illustrated, b/w, 52pp
Mobile Post Office Society, 1986.
Towle, C.L.
‘The United
States Transit Markings Catalog,
1837-1974.’ Vol.I 1837-1886.
Illustrated, b/w, 250pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1975.
Illustrates every known mark, with details of route and rarity
factor. Superseded by the 1990s publication above.
Towle, C.L.
‘The United
States Transit Markings Catalog,
1837-1974.’ Vol.II 1887-1974 (A-L)
Illustrated, b/w, 250pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1977.
Illustrates every known mark, with details of route and rarity
factor. Superseded by the 1990s publication above.
Towle, C.L.
‘The United
States Transit Markings Catalog,
1837-1974.’ Vol.III 1887-1974 (M-Z)
Illustrated, b/w, 250pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1977.
Illustrates every known mark, with details of route and rarity
factor. Superseded by the 1990s publication above.
Towle, C.L.
‘The United
States Transit Markings Catalog,
1837-1974.’ Vol.IV
Illustrated, b/w, 66pp.
Mobile Post Office Society, USA, 1977.
Deals with transfer clerks, local mail agents and other static
offices.
Towle, C.L.
‘Railway Mail Service Eighth Division 1874-1908.’
Not illustrated, 60pp
Mobile Post Office Society, 1976
RMS Timetables etc. for the 8th Division (Western
States and Territories)
Towle, C.L.
‘U.S. Route and Station Agent Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 420pp
Mobile Post Office Society, 1986
Monumental and comprehensive work.
Towle, C.l.
‘U.S. Route and Station Agent Postmarks: Historical
Supplement.’
Illustrated, b/w, 122pp
Mobile Post Office Society, 1986
‘A History of the Railway Mail Service’
Not illustrated, 34pp
Mobile Post Office Society reprint of original 1903 edition
Venezuela
Codling, A.N.
‘Venezuelan Railway TPOs – More Questions than Answers.’
TPO Vol.55, No.3, Autumn, 2001, pp90-91
Vietnam
World
Hill, N.
‘The Royal Tour Trains, their Postal History and Postmarks.’
Illustrated, b/w, 23pp.
Harry Hayes, 1977
ISBN 0 905222 32 6
Details of the routes with dates and postmarks.
Yugoslavia
Ercegovic, V.
‘Current TPO Lists.’
TPO: Vol13, p72, p112; vol. 15, p35.
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