Dutch Railway Stamps: Railway Station Cancellations

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Dutch Railway Stamps: Railway Station Postmarks

Survey of station postmarks

A station post office is a post office in a railway station or in its immediate vicinity. A station post office is different from a railway post office. A railway post office is located in a train car that travels on a specific track, loading and unloading mail on the way at the platforms of the stations it serves. That mail is sorted during the journey. A station post office usually also has a sorting center and gives the sorted mail with the train. This means that this mail no longer needs to be sorted on the train.

Station post offices usually use their own postmarks, the station postmarks. In the Netherlands, these postmarks usually had the text 'place name - station'. A stamp from a station post office is different from a stop stamp. The postal clerks in a moving railway post office carried stamps with the name of each stop their train made. For example, if they received a letter at the Appingedam stop, they had to put the Appingedam stop stamp on the letter.
Below you find a number of examples of station postmarks.