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Evening All,
I had a trip on the new Mail Rail in London this week and can thoroughly recommend it to anyone in, near or visiting London. For anyone unfamiliar with Rail Mail, it's the old 2ft gauge underground Post Office Railway that until 2003 carried millions of letters between Paddington and Liverpool Street Stations and the Mount Pleasant sorting office. It ran in deep level tube tunnels and had driverless trains operated from control panels.
Completely unknown to the majority of Londoners it was called London's secret railway, but a short section of it has now been re-opened in conjunction with the Post Office Museum near Mount Pleasant sorting office and the public can take a short ride on trains deep below Mount Pleasant.
I took a few pictures whilst there and these are now on Flickr. This is the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/albums/72157661375104808
Hope they're of interest.
I had a trip on the new Mail Rail in London this week and can thoroughly recommend it to anyone in, near or visiting London. For anyone unfamiliar with Rail Mail, it's the old 2ft gauge underground Post Office Railway that until 2003 carried millions of letters between Paddington and Liverpool Street Stations and the Mount Pleasant sorting office. It ran in deep level tube tunnels and had driverless trains operated from control panels.
Completely unknown to the majority of Londoners it was called London's secret railway, but a short section of it has now been re-opened in conjunction with the Post Office Museum near Mount Pleasant sorting office and the public can take a short ride on trains deep below Mount Pleasant.
I took a few pictures whilst there and these are now on Flickr. This is the link:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/albums/72157661375104808
Hope they're of interest.