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The arrival of the railways soon had people demanding a rail route from London to the west coast of Britain and a connecting ferry to Ireland. The last Royal Mail stagecoach service from Chester to London was in 1839.
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The first mails to Ireland by rail took place on 24-01-1839 from London via the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_Birmingham_Railway London and Birmingham Railway], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Junction_Railway Grand Junction Railway] to Newton (le Willows) and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railway Liverpool and Manchester Railway]. They were then taken by an Admiralty packet boat to Kingstown, (present day Dun Laoghaire) the overall journey taking about 24 hours.
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