London’s ‘Secret’ Underground Mail Railway Opens to Public

London’s ‘Secret’ Underground Mail Railway Opens to Public

Deep below London's streets, a little-known warren of tunnels criss-crosses the capital. For much for the 20th century, the network was dedicated solely to delivering Britain’s mail.

When the underground mail route first opened in 1927, a train would depart from Paddington Station in West London every seven minutes, carrying letters 6.5 miles across the city to Whitechapel Station in the east, stopping at key sorting houses along the way.

Now, for the first time, visitors will be able to travel a stretch of tunnel measuring more than half-a-mile, in a newly-built train similar to that which transported mail for the best part of the last century.
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