Would You Ride London’s Secret Train 21m Below Ground? 💌📮⁣ ⁣ Beneath Clerkenwell lies one of London’s most unusual attractions: the Mail Rail at the Postal Museum. This narrow-gauge underground railway opened in 1927 and was built to move post quickly and securely between major sorting offices, completely avoiding traffic above ground. ⁣ ⁣ At its peak, trains ran every few minutes, carrying up to 4 million letters a day through tunnels around 21 metres below street level.⁣ ⁣ Today, visitors ca
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Would You Ride London’s Secret Train 21m Below Ground? 💌📮⁣ ⁣ Beneath Clerkenwell lies one of London’s most unusual attractions: the Mail Rail at the Postal Museum. This narrow-gauge underground railway opened in 1927 and was built to move post quickly and securely between major sorting offices, completely avoiding traffic above ground. ⁣ ⁣ At its peak, trains ran every few minutes, carrying up to 4 million letters a day through tunnels around 21 metres below street level.⁣ ⁣ Today, visitors ca
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