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In article , Guy Gorton
writes
"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.

If you were on the visit I was, the trains were still running. It was
the last day of service for both Aldwych and Ongar (I was on the last
train from the latter).

--
Clive D.W. Feather

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"Recliner" wrote in message
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wrote:
On 03.09.17 13:34, 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.

This article seems to indicates that Mail Rail was a secret, at least at
one point in the past.

Was this actually the case?

I don't know that it was actually a secret, but it certainly wasn't
publicised, and of course it was invisible to the public, unlike mail
trains on the BR network or Royal Mail road vehicles.


It was publicised in several public information films.

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On 2017\09\07 13:00, Peter Able wrote:

It was publicised in several public information films.

It also played the role of the Vatican railway in the Bruce Willis film
"Hudson Hawk". I can't find the bit in question, but this is great,
despite having no rail content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX_jCwNTKHU

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

[snip]

All trips cancelled Wednesday due to a technical issue. According to
the commentary, when bombs hit during the blitz the system was up and
running the next day yet in 2017 it takes more than a day to fix an
issue with a museum train.

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On 08/09/2017 11:33, Scott wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 12:34:33 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

[snip]

All trips cancelled Wednesday due to a technical issue. According to
the commentary, when bombs hit during the blitz the system was up and
running the next day yet in 2017 it takes more than a day to fix an
issue with a museum train.


Wartime mail was more important to keep moving than peacetime tourists.

--
Graeme Wall
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