Date: 05/02/2016

A little known railway that ran under Londoners feet for almost a century, with its tunnels in places running within a few feet of packed underground commuter lines, will open to the public for the first time next year. A £26m project backed by the Heritage Lottery Fund is rebuilding the Royal Mail museum at Mount Pleasant in central London to hold its vast collection and archives, and restoring a stretch of the railway as a visitor attraction. The Mail Rail opened in 1927, the first driverless electric railway in the world, with trains running every five minutes at peak hours along a network of 22 miles of 2ft-gauge lines, shuttling mail safe from road traffic and weather between two main railway stations, Paddington and Kings Cross, and six major sorting offices.

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Royal Mail 'secret' railway on track to reopen next year

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Stretch of Mail Rail that ran under London for almost a century will open to the public as part of £26m project at Postal Museum