Liverpool & Manchester Railway. 1837-39 Entire letters from Lima, Peru, to England, one with a Liverpool Ship Letter handstamp, the other endorsed by a Liverpool forwarding agent and posted in Liverpool, handstamped red "2" or "5", applied at Manchester to show which train the letters were despatched on. Six trains ran daily between Liverpool and Manchester, but handstamp "1" has not been recorded. The relative scarcity of these marks suggests they were only applied to the top letter in each bundle. (2).