Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and ManchesterDrake, James, active 1825
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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester
Drake, James, active 1825
Grand Junction Railway Company (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks; Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
The following are the hours at which the letter-box is closed for making
up the several Mails, and at which each mail is despatched:—
Box closes at Despatched at
H. M. H. M.
FIRST GRAND JUNCTION.—Bags made 6.0 a.m. 6.20 a.m.
up for Warrington, Preston-Brook,
Northwich, Middlewich, Nantwich,
Congleton, Market Drayton,
Stafford, Penkridge,
Wolverhampton, Walsall, and
Birmingham; and on Tuesdays and
Fridays a Foreign Bag to London.
The postage of Foreign Letters
can be paid from 5.30 to 6 a.m.,
and up to 9 o’clock the previous
evening.
FIRST MANCHESTER MAIL.—Bags for 6.30 a.m. 6.50 a.m.
Manchester, Bolton, Rochdale,
Leeds, and York.
CHESTER MAIL.—For Neston, 7.30 a.m. 8.05 a.m.
Parkgate, and Chester.
LANCASTER MAIL.—For Maghull, 8.0 a.m. 8.15 a.m.
Ormskirk and Southport.
SECOND MANCHESTER MAIL.—A bag for 8.30 a.m. 8.50 a.m.
Prescot, and (per Railway to
Newton) bags for Newton, Wigan,
Chorley, Preston, Lancaster,
Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and
Manchester.
SECOND GRAND JUNCTION.—Bags for 11.0 a.m. 11.20 a.m.
Warrington, Stafford,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham.
THIRD MANCHESTER MAIL.—Blackburn, 11.30 a.m. 11.50 a.m.
Colne, Bury, and Manchester.
PENNY POSTS.—For Birkenhead, 11.0 a.m. 12.45 p.m.
Upton, Seacombe, New Brighton,
Crosby, Bootle, Walton, West
Derby, Old Swan, Woolton, and
Wavertree.
FOURTH MANCHESTER 1.30 p.m. 1.50 p.m.
MAIL.—Manchester.
THIRD GRAND JUNCTION.—Bags for 1.45 p.m. 3.20 p.m.
Prescot, Warrington,
Preston-Brook, Northwich,
Middlewich, Nantwich, Newcastle,
Eccleshall, Stone, Stafford,
Penkridge, Wolverhampton,
Walsall, Birmingham, Towcester,
Northampton, London, and Bristol;
and letters for Portugal, North
and South America, and the West
Indies. The letters for London
sent by this despatch will be
included in the first delivery
there the following morning.
CARLISLE MAIL.—For Ormskirk, 4.0 p.m. 4.30 p.m.
Preston, Chorley, Bury,
Blackburn, Haslingden, Lancaster,
Westmoreland, Cumberland, and all
Scotland.
FIFTH MANCHESTER AND THE YORK 4.0 p.m. 4.50 p.m.
MAILS.—For Manchester, Rochdale,
and the Counties of York,
Lincoln, and Durham (per
Railway).
BRISTOL MAIL.—Chester, South 4.0 p.m. 5.0 p.m.
Wales, and Bristol.
DUBLIN MAIL PACKET.—For Ireland. 4.30 p.m. 5.0 p.m.
BOLTON MAIL.—For Bolton. 4.30 p.m. 5.0 p.m.
HOLYHEAD MAIL.—For Birkenhead, 6.30 p.m. 6.0 p.m.
New Ferry, Eastham, Chester,
North Wales.
FOURTH GRAND JUNCTION.—Bags for 6.0 p.m. 6.20 p.m.
Manchester, Warrington, Stafford,
Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and
London. The letters for London
sent by this despatch will be
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