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...
The station was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway company with the name St. Paul's, and renamed in 1937. It underwent a major redevelopment between 2009 and 2012, with the platforms n...
Former public transport company. It eventually amalgamated with the London General Omnibus Company and Vanguard Motorbus Company. Maps are normally very helpful with buildings like this but this b...
Pioneering pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s. Born Yorkshire. ...
The route to Bishopsgate can still be seen clearly on a current map, wending its way fairly directly via roads and footpaths from Mare Street Narroway down to Virginia Road which, prior redevelopme...
Walter Owen Bentley (1888 - 1971), "W. O." to his friends, founded Bentley Motors Limited. The first Bentley was designed in 1919 and built in New Street Mews, the site of the plaques. It took just...
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