"The Post Office underground railway – Mail Rail – ran under the streets of London largely unnoticed for more than three quarters of a century. Since 2003, the electrified railway has been dormant, with just a handful of engineers to maintain it". The Guardian.
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| Mail Rail train. Photograph: Bradley Photography |
"Mail Rail was approved by an Act of Parliament a century ago, and during its heyday its driverless trains carried 12 million postal items daily on the line stretching from East End's Whitechapel to west London's Paddington". BBC
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| Mail Rail |
"As part of a £22m plan for a national postal museum in central London, the British Postal Museum & Archive is to open a section of Mail Rail to the public for the first time in its history." The Guardian
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| The descent to Mount Pleasant. Photograph: Bradley Photography |
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