![]() Sir Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter, Alexandra Shackleton, said: “These beautiful stamps show the images of Frank Hurley, photographer to Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition, which set forth a century ago. “Their bravery and determination have been an inspiration to generations, and are rightly honoured with a set of Special Stamps,” he said. Stephen Agar of the Royal Mail believes the challenges endured by the 28-man crew of the endurance deserve to be recognised. Hurley's photography is regarded as ground-breaking, and the stamp issue uses these to tell the chronological story of the voyage, survival and rescue. The eight-stamp set uses images of the actual voyage which were recorded by Shackleton’s official expedition photographer, Frank Hurley, on large format glass negatives. Shackleton’s heroism and resourcefulness have made him one of the most celebrated sailors and leaders of all time. That trail run has never ended.In collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society and the Scott Polar Research Institute, the Royal Mail in the UK has launched a set of special stamps to mark 100 years since the remarkable story of survival of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance. However, the Royal Mail retreat from rail was short-lived, with postal traffic back on the network by Christmas, albeit unstaffed and already sorted. ![]() Staffed travelling post offices – where mail was sorted on the move – were discontinued in 2004. However, the general trend is towards more parcel traffic on the rails. Royal Mail is also rolling out parcel boxes to help capture more of the light logistics market (Royal Mail) While there is a broad interest in seeing so-called parcel traffic back in the mainstream of railway operations, there have been some hiccoughs with reliability and service. ![]() Several companies have been easing into dedicated trains, running at passenger line speeds and potentially operating out of passenger terminals in the centres of the UK’s cities. The news comes as a shot in the arm for the light logistics sector. Initially, they plan to run a trio of trains to Shieldmuir in Motherwell. When completed next year, the company will, for the first time, be able to run services from there to sorting offices around the country. The company, founded as a royal charter in 1516, is building a vast sorting facility at Daventry as part of the existing rail terminal there. The Royal Mail sorting centre at DIRFT is nearing delivery (Royal Mail) Although that relationship was nearly broken in 2004, the national carrier has since invested in its dedicated fleet of electric multiple units and is now set to increase its rail-based operations substantially. Royal Mail, the familiar red livery on everything from post boxes to aircraft, has been a railways customer for almost two centuries. Substantially increase rail-based operations The overnight paths will avoid busy long-distance passenger services and intensive commuter traffic around London and Glasgow. The new services will run from Royal Mail’s purpose-built facility at the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) to Shieldmuir, just south of the passenger station, directly adjacent to the West Coast Main Line. Currently, dedicated trains run between the mail depot in Willesden in northwest London, the sorting office in Warrington in northwest England and Shieldmuir in Central Scotland. Reports say that Royal Mail will add three new trains to their existing services between England and Scotland within a year.
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