Moving the Mail
Sunday 5th July 2026
Our Moving the Mail event will be a fun day out for families and railway enthusiasts alike.
There will be a special Family Trail encouraging children to find pictures placed around the Railway Centre’s site. Visitors will be invited to report their successful completion of the trail to stewards in the Travelling Post Office (TPO) carriages, where they can also try sorting letters into the historic sorting frames.
Illustrated talks will be given in the Visitor Centre Cinema Coach. The subjects covered will be the history of the Great Western TPO and the Mail Bag Exchange Apparatus. In the TPO carriages, visitors can peruse a poster display on the history of the postal service and the Great Train Robbery.
All the usual Steaming Day facilities on site will be available on Moving the Mail Day including rides on a Steam Train, the Museum, Bookshop, Café and Gift Shop
We will also have miniature ride-on trains which are run by our sister society VAMES (there is a small £1.50 charge for this per person – under 3s are free).
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Sunday 5th July 2026
Our Moving the Mail event will be a fun day out for families and railway enthusiasts alike.
There will be a special Family Trail encouraging children to find pictures placed around the Railway Centre’s site. Visitors will be invited to report their successful completion of the trail to stewards in the Travelling Post Office (TPO) carriages, where they can also try sorting letters into the historic sorting frames.
Illustrated talks will be given in the Visitor Centre Cinema Coach. The subjects covered will be the history of the Great Western TPO and the Mail Bag Exchange Apparatus. In the TPO carriages, visitors can peruse a poster display on the history of the postal service and the Great Train Robbery.
All the usual Steaming Day facilities on site will be available on Moving the Mail Day including rides on a Steam Train, the Museum, Bookshop, Café and Gift Shop
We will also have miniature ride-on trains which are run by our sister society VAMES (there is a small £1.50 charge for this per person – under 3s are free).
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