The Post Office Railway carried post from Paddington Head Sorting office to Eastern Head Sorting Office in Whitechapel, a distance of 6½ miles (10.5km), with eight stations. Closed because it had become more expensive than transport by road. Refurbished and re-opened as a tourist attraction in 2017 - you can ride it!
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Post Office Railway
'Mail Rail' - Post Office Railway, 1927 - 2003, 6½ mile, 2 ft gauge, driverle...
Opened by the London and South Western Railway on 11 July 1848 as ‘Waterloo Bridge station’. Built to extend the line from Nine Elms closer to the City, with the expectation that the line would eve...
Land and water speed record-holder. Born Donald Malcolm Campbell, Canbury, Kingston Hill, Surrey. After the death of his father (Sir Malcolm Campbell), he decided to defend his water title and rega...
One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
This was the world's first underground passenger railway which opened from Paddington to Farringdon via Baker Street Station on 10th January 1863. IanVisits has reproduced an Illustrated London Ne...
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened their side of the station in 1860. Another part of the station, The London Chatham and Dover Railway (later South East and Chatham Railway, or SEC...
