I didn't know until a few weeks ago that this letter box actually existed. So it was quite a suprise when I found it with an online search due to one of my caching friends saying they saw one in a village they were passing through somewhere in Buckinghamshire. It's not a box you would notice while walking down the street as it is actually on platform 4 of Taplow Railway station. It only has one collection a day and I am really pleased to be adding it to the Victorian Letterbox Series.
Apparently Royal Mail have changed the information on the box. So the only way to find the cache is to complete the puzzle. There are barriers at the station but TFL staff are willing to let view the box on the platform.
https://www.jigidi.com/solve/wmxli7mz/victorian-postbox-taplow/
The numbers you need can be obtained by completing the puzzle.
Box Number SLA BB, underneath you will see CP? this single digit number will be C and then a date DC/EC/FEDG
| N51 BD.(A÷2) F (F+G) W000 (C-D) E.(BxB) C (A-F) |
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Another cache in a National Numbered Series of Letterbox Hybrid caches, placed to mark one of a diminishing number of post boxes placed in Queen Victoria’s reign and still in use for regular collections by Royal Mail.
A few simple guidelines apply to the series (subject to amendment):
- The post box must carry the Royal Cipher of Queen Victoria (in whatever format)
- The box must have regular collections by Royal Mail
- The box must be in the British Isles (so United Kingdom and adjoining Crown Dependencies).
- Any style or colour of box are valid as long as the above all apply
Please set the cache in whatever format you chose – just as long as it is a Letterbox Hybrid! A picture would be good, but not essential. Please also include the following HTML at the bottom of your page:
If you know of an eligible post box and would like to add to this series, please apply to Team Hippo for a series number, giving the following:
- Location as in place name (and street if applicable)
- Location in Lat Long format (DD MM.MMM)
- Postbox number
Please note that featured post boxes should comply with the guidelines above. Caches should be Letterbox Hybrid type (and therefore contain a LB stamp), whether placed at the published co-ords, or a simple offset multi, or multi-stage multi, or more of a puzzle style format.
Warning barbed wire close to cache. Mind you head.
