Telegraph at Post Office (1870)

Post date: Nov 01, 2013 8:13:20 PM

Extract from Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald of 27 August 1870:

Post-office telegraph stations have been opened this week at Wateringbury and Dover Pier.

The Telegraph system developed alongside the railway, so by 1850 there were 180 miles of telegraph line and 47 telegraph stations alongside S.E. Railway. Tonbridge was the local nerve centre. A cross-channel submarine cable was laid in 1850. The telegraph was nationalised in 1870 (the year of the above newspaper report) and placed under the Post Office. [An Historical Atlas of Kent edited by Terence Lawson and David Killingray page 166].

See also Train Times (1859)