The Stuart Rossiter Memorial Lecture 2011
The
2011 Lecture,entitled
"The More the Rail the Faster the Mail",
was given by Colin Tabeart, at 5.00pm on Friday 4th November 2011 at
the Royal Philatelic Society London
The massive development of the steam engine through the 19th century,
much of it inspired and pioneered in the UK, led to two major advances
in communication: the steam railways and steamships.
Beginning in 1824 the UK set up a vast network of steamship communication
across the world, long before any other nation became involved. Initially,
the primitive steam engines and huge coal consumption gave average speeds
over long distances rarely above about 8 knots, rising to 14 or 15 knots
by the end of the century (20 knots for crack transatlantic liners),
but the land-based railways were always much faster.
Wherever possible, Post Offices around the world sought to utilise this
greater speed, usually in combination with steamship journeys, this
being the combination that Colin will address.
The scope covers speeding of the mails: within the UK to point of departure
of the ships; within Europe for mails to the Mediterranean, Far East
and Australia; within Australia; across North America via San Francisco
and via Vancouver; and finally that huge enterprise, the Trans-Siberian
Railway. The talk will be illustrated with maps, pictures, and covers
from Colin's collection.
Colin is a Fellow and Past President of the Society of Postal Historians,
a member of the Postal History Society and Forces Postal History Society,
and edits the quarterly Journal for the latter. He has written eight
books on postal history topics, the latest pair of which cover all the
packet ship mails between the UK and Australia and New Zealand in the
19th century.
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