Newsletter Editors

Ross Gray won the John S. Siverts award for best BNAPS study group newsletter in 2002, 2005, 2014, and 2022.

Viewing the newsletters

The issues are in PDF format. File sizes vary from 0.1 to 44.3 MB. When you click on an issue number, it will be displayed in a new window. Closing the window returns you to this page.

How to search the newsletters

Here are three ways of searching the newsletters.

Index for Vol. 1 to Vol. 27

This index, compiled by William G. Robinson, covers issues between Nov. 1973 and August 1999.

Index for Vol. 28 to Vol. 49

This index, compiled by Richard Cromwell and Brian Stalker and edited by Ross Gray, covers issues between Sept. 1999 and Oct.-Dec. 2021.

Google search

To search through the newsletters using Google and constrain the search results to just the newsletters, paste the text: site:https://bnaps.org/studygroups/rpo/newsletters in the Google search box followed by the phrase you wish to search for. In the image reproduced below, the search phrase is "Grand Trunk". Note that if the phase "Grand Trunk" is not enclosed in quotes, the search results will include all instances of "Grand" and "Trunk". The search is case-insensitive. "Grand Trunk" and "grand trunk" will return the same results.

Newsletters

Other resources

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Index to the RPO Newsletter of the Canadian R.P.O. Study Group (19.7 MB)
William G. Robinson

This index of the R.P.O. newsletter covers Vol. 1, No. 1, (Nov. 1973) to Vol. 27, No. 6 (August 1999).

R.P.O. Newsletter Information Finder (0.4 MB)
Version 2 released on 9 May 2022.
Compiled by Richard Cromwell and Brian Stalker. Edited by Ross Gray.

This index of the R.P.O. newsletter covers Vol 28, No. 1, (Sept. 1999) to Vol 49, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2021) or pages 1538 to 2807. The index includes the following lists:

1. “Regular” (i.e. not clerk) date-stamps and hand-stamps that feature in Hammer Studies and in historical summary articles
2. Mail clerk hammers by surname and initials
3. Railway Company articles
4. Railway timetables
5. Picture Post Cards and photographs
6. Miscellaneous articles relating to the transport of mail and the Railway Mail Service
7. Link between page numbers and volume no. for those accessing newsletters via the BNAPS website

References and websites

List of references and websites dealing with RPOs, TPOs, the railway mail service, and Canadian railroads.

RPO glossary

Glossary of RPO and TPO technical terms.

Railway Mail Service

Stories of the railway mail service from people who were part of it.