I’ve heard of first class travel, but this is ridiculous!
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I’ve heard of first class travel, but this is ridiculous!
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That was fascinating 👏 for me as I worked at KEB '76 to '82 got shown the postal railway when I started at 17
Excellent as always and full of history about London. I love these Jago videos about trains, in the same way that I love John Rogers 'Walks Through London' and I feel they really complement each other. Thanks Jago.
Who here remembers Lenny the Letter?
The current/voltage misstep that has sparked ample moans is in my mind instantly negated by your use of power cut (4:30).All of a sudden the broadcast media has decided to adopt outage in yet another case of lingo mangle for no apparent or good reason. Ohm y goodness, we'll be driving on the right soon.
Yes, Evan Evans was indeed the choirmaster on Ivor the Engine. Bendigedig!
So the service's 2003 demise was a snail mail rail fail?
Ivor the Engine by Oliver POSTgate
How brilliant. Next time I'm in London…….
Cars and carriages. Who is it that calls them wagons? I know I’ve seen or heard them called that previously.
Damn, just one month more, and I would have been alive at the same time Mail Rail was still operating! Oh, well. At least we have the heritage line now.
More heritage railways, please
I like that the Postal Museum has one year tickets. High enough in price to fleece the tourists 😂, but hopefully good value for “locals” who can get in a number of visits… Perhaps, more a concept for art galleries, and other places with changing exhibits 🤔
Will you do a special on Heston services on M4 ,this was the aerodrome that Neville Chamberlain displayed his piece of white paper ,with peace in our time, so much of the ww2 history is connected to Britains railways ,
All your videos make me smile but in this case, the title also made me smile
(For the Sir Terry vibes, not the idea of a worker going on a murder spree)
This is on my list for places to see and things to do the next time I'm in London, and to paraphrase John Rogers, "*Whenever* that may be."
You do have an interesting way of describing things
Jago! Was wondering if this would be covered. On a visit to London a few years ago I checked this out. Elbowed some cute kids outta the way to get to front of the train hahaha (kidding! sorta…). It’s a fantastic thing the museum has done there and the train is amazing – the exhibits are good too. Highly recommend seeing it!
'Radio Gaga' started playing in my head😏. I really think they should keep Mail Rail on stand by🤔…
If mail rail was built to the sise of the tube, yes it might be back, but you are not getting a tv or a bike onboard so online shopping is not the great reviver. Also the equipment is for mail and light packages so nope.
Still just the mile or so out and back loop route I assume? (I think it was less than a mile, maybe a kilometer?) I sincerely wish they will one day open up the entire route to Paddington to tourists. It was fun, but a tad disappointing in how short it was.
(I still have not uploaded to footage I took in 2019 when I visited, lol)
Current, power and voltage (tension) are not the same and therefore not interchangable
I hesitated giving this a upvote today.. Was just about to upvote then "Stamp of Approval" reared it's head and the defeated sigh i released made me hesitate.
That is so cool!! I am totally going on that train – good one Jago 👍
Another YT video went into details of a American version of this saying in the days you would visit a store and have them deliver your purchase to your home and the streets would be crammed with trucks trying to sort it out, basements of stores were linked to this system and it moved the packages underground reducing traffic caused by delivery vehicles.. was it Chicago maybe NYC?
3 miles an hour is brisk walk. 6 miles an hour is a jog. 6km an hour is a pretty fast walk.
Why don’t t you have a look at the old, now replaced Croydon to New Cross pneumatic railway? Very interesting.
I went on a tour of the mail rail when in the 70's. I remember riding on one, but that may be just blurry memory =)
This is a stunner of a video, which I am going to watch at least twice more.
Terrific video. Now I want to have a go on the Mail Rail, next time I visit London.
A lot of interesting aspects, including at 4:07 that essential piece of mail delivery – the dartboard.
Now I need to go back to the Amberley Heritage Museum to see if their mail rail carriages are the four wheel ones or the improved ones.
I watched the Hudson Hawk movie after watching this video because of some scenes of this railway. Fun to watch!
Fascinating video, thank you!
Walked down the tunnels earlier this year
4:15 workers down here would refer to the button as a cherry because it looked like one
5:15 there was once an incident where a car fell off the track so they didn't know that part of the track was occupied so they sent another and it crashed into the other car and fell off and it happened one more time until the workers thought why aren't any trains coming and walked down the tracks to find 3 smashed up trains
Awesome vid. Fascinating little thing
The power units of one of the two trains that went to Launceston have been used to build the power bogie for a diesel-electric railcar. The second train still exists and can be seen in the museum.
Fascinating. Interesting to see what went into moving massive amounts of mail. Most people probably have no idea or appreciation for timely mail.
I was pleased to see a VR postbox at the end there. Within a mile of where I'm sitting as I type this, there is both a EVIIR and EVIIIIR postbox still in service.
Obviously a large dense city like London really ought to have a network of mail/parcel railways underground.
When the mail trains stopped and it was moved to lorries on the motorways, what if at least one of these new terminals had been connected to Mail Rail? And an eastern extension out to Canary Wharf? Thoughtful expansions with long term potential.
Absolutely fascinating, all sorts of things here that I didn't know about the erstwhile Post Office Railway, including the sheer intensity of the operation. Good that it's been mothballed in case it's needed again, though it sounds as if mail transport patterns have altered substantially. Interesting that Paddington and Liv St were on the line but KX, St P, Euston and the Southern termini weren't.
Nice to see the VR (Victoria Regina) Post Box at the end of your interesting video. Won't be long before a few 'C III R' King Charles ones appear, no doubt! The Republic of Ireland, kept their Royal Mail boxes when separating from Britain in 1922 and quite a few VR, 'E VII R' and 'G V R' ones have survived, painted green, especially in Dublin.
Should have become the central section of the LizLine. Crossrail would have been much more fun as a narrow-gauge heritage attraction.
I agree I think if it had stuck around I think it probably would be back in service now with increased traffic, I did think that at the time but, that's us mere mortals don't get to make big decisions like that
With the price of petrol being what it is, maybe the mail rail will be back in action? Thanks for uploading,
Went on it three years ago fantastic time