About a month after confederation with Canada the new railway operator printed this public timetable.
Above is an Ayre Company (a St John's family business) postcard, manufactured in Germany.
A paper mill later put the 'Hum on the Humber' - as they said back in the early 1920s.
The postmark is probably from 1909 - so before the Great War.
In Britain, TPO stood for Travelling Post Office,
and Newfoundland often called itself 'Britain's oldest colony'.
The card was mailed to Belleville, Ontario.
Railway detail and the postmark are enlarged below.
