Guy Gorton wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 12:34:33 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

Alan Johnson on London's latest railway tourist attraction:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/squeeze-in-and-the-london-postal-museum-mail-rail-will-deliver-you-to-a-lost-world-lvvzlmr3d?shareToken=6d140e276fa1eb76fc82d64640584 d9b

Obviously he got this bit wrong ("Back in the railway’s heyday,
battery-powered locomotives pulled cartloads of mail back and forth for 22
hours a day"), as the old mail trains weren't battery-operated.

"Mail Rail is opening to the public for the first time" is not quite
true either. I was one of many people who visited it some years
although we could not ride the trains. Was it soon after it ceased to
be used for the mail? Can't remember.

I visited it nearly 40 years ago when it was very much in use. We certainly
couldn't ride the trains, and the visit
had to be specially organised by the society of which I was a member;
ordinary members of the public certainly couldn't get access.