What Happened to London’s Other Underground


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There is an abandoned railway network 60th underneath London but it wasn’t part of the London Underground. It had one purpose to move mail across London as quickly as possible. The Post Office Railway (The Mail Rail) didn’t just deliver mail within London but across the whole world. But at its peak in 2003, the whole network suddenly shut down and was abandoned. Overnight this railway went from delivering 4 million items a day to zero. In this episode, Andy goes underground to discover So if it was so important then why was it left to be forgotten?

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