The postal museum london tells the story of the nation’s post and lets visitors ride the Mail Rail, a tiny railway that once shuttled letters underground.
LONDON – Cultural observers have confirmed that The Postal Museum London tells the story of the nation’s post and lets visitors ride the Mail Rail, a tiny underground railway that once shuttled letters beneath the city in cheerful, near-total secrecy.
The Postal Museum London: A Train Built Entirely For Letters
The museum near Mount Pleasant, celebrating centuries of postal history, offers as its star attraction a ride on the miniature railway the Bureau of Hidden Transport calls “the only train ever built whose passengers, for most of its life, were envelopes.”
“The Postal Museum London has a genuinely delightful secret,” said a spokesperson for the Institute of Postal Heritage. “For decades a tiny driverless railway ran deep beneath the streets, carrying nothing but mail across the city, entirely out of public sight. Now visitors squeeze into the little carriages and trundle through the original tunnels themselves, knees up around their ears, marvelling that a whole secret railway existed under their feet purely to move post about faster than the traffic above.”
Visiting The Postal Museum London
The museum – detailed at its official site, listed by Visit London and reviewed by Time Out London – sits near Farringdon and includes the Mail Rail ride.
A survey by the Bureau found that 87 percent of The Postal Museum London visitors name the Mail Rail ride as the highlight, and that the secret history of the underground post railway is rated a genuine surprise.
“The Postal Museum London uncovers a hidden world,” the spokesperson explained. “Ride the little train, and discover the railway built just for letters.”
The Bureau confirmed The Postal Museum London remains one of the capital’s most charming hidden attractions, ideal for families and the curious, combining postal history with the rare thrill of riding a tiny secret railway that spent its working life ferrying the nation’s mail.
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