Rail Mail (Austria)
The railway post in Austria existed from 1850 to 2004.
history
On August 1, 1850, the mail was transported for the first time in Austria-Hungary in an imperial and royal post office between Vienna and Oderberg (today Bohumín) on today's routes of the Northern Railway and the Břeclav – Petrovice u Karviné railway .
In 1914 700 rail mail cars were in use. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , these operated from 1938 to 1945 for the Deutsche Reichspost . In 1945 the Austrian Post took over the transport of rail mail again. Until 1995, money was also transported by rail mail. In April 1990, between Kirchstetten and Ollersbach, 35 million schillings were looted in a robbery; one officer lost his life in the process.
With the construction and expansion of the six distribution centers from 2001 onwards, mail could be sorted faster in the distribution center than on the train; thus the railway mail quickly lost its importance. In May 2004, the last national line Vienna - Wolfurt - Vienna was stopped. The last regional line was the Innsbruck - Wolfurt connection after the opening of the Hall / Innsbruck distribution center .
Österreichische Post AG has been transporting such items by truck or small truck (Sprinter) since 2004.
See also
literature
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Manual dictionary of the postal system , published by the Federal Ministry for the postal and telecommunications system,
- 2nd completely revised edition, Frankfurt am Main 1953.
- 3rd completely revised edition, Volume 1, Berlin 1971.
- The first fifty years of Austrian rail mail. Memorandum. Published by the Postbeamtenverein in Vienna, 1900