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Railway Express Agency (aka REA Express) (REA), founded as the American Railway Express Agency and later renamed the American Railway Express Inc., was a national package delivery service that operated in the United States from 1918 to 1975.
Guildford station sign with Red Star Parcels logo, 2023 Red Star Parcels sign at Littlehampton station in June 2022. Since the early years of Britain's railways, various private companies carried parcel traffic onboard passenger trains; some opted to establish dedicated offices and other facilities at their stations, while others even resorted to using dedicated parcel trains where volume ...
The restored 1927 AT&SF Railway #74 RPO car is displayed at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo (San Diego County), California. For the permanent exhibition, Mail by Rail, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum re-created a railway mail train in its Atrium. The interior fixtures are from a de-commissioned mail car.
The Federal Railway Property Agency (Bundeseisenbahnvermögen (BEV)) [1], is a German federal agency that bundles state tasks from which the Deutsche Bahn AG, which is in competition, is to be permanently relieved. In this way, it contributes to the implementation of the Railway Reform .
Historically, the station master deputised an assistant station master (ASM). In large stations this might be a full-time position. In smaller local stations, the ASM title was often attached to another post, such as senior booking clerk, or even head porter. On heritage railways, the ASM role is often unchanged from this historic role.
Railway porter, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), [ca. 1925] In the United States and Canada, the term "porter" has a somewhat different history and contemporary usage, than the rest of the world. Until desegregation had its effect in the United States in the 1960s, the occupation of porter was almost the exclusive province of African American ...
The MARS-1 train ticket reservation system was designed and planned in the 1950s by the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute, now the Railway Technical Research Institute, with the system eventually being produced by Hitachi in 1958. [6] It was the world's first seat reservation system for trains. [7]
On the Vijayawada–Wadi (the SCR's main line) and Secunderabad–Manmad railway lines, it is the zone headquarters of the South Central Railway and the headquarters of the SCR's Secunderabad Division. The station has received ISO-9001 certification for quality management in ticket booking, parcel and luggage booking and platform management. [3]