South Wales Sorting Tender (GB)

Strip of 3 Penny Plate Reds (Plate 177) cancelled on the S^o Wales Sorting Tender UP in 1878

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The South Wales Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd De Cymru) was a main line railway which opened in stages from 1850, connecting the Great Western Railway from Gloucester to South Wales. It was constructed on the broad gauge. An original aspiration was to reach Fishguard to engender an Irish ferry transit and transatlantic trade, but the latter did not materialise for many years, and never became an important sector of the business. Neyland was the western terminus of the line until 1906.

The company amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1863

The lines ran from (Gloucester / Bristol) in the East via Newport, Cardiff and terminated in Carmarthen in the West.

Sorting carriages were utilised across the network to speed up sorting of mail.

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So Wales Sorting Tender UP in 1878

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