London Underground-Mail Rail-Discovered by Urban Explorers.

[Sh012222]

This was show on Great British Railway Journeys recently with Michael Portillo.

[MrDibbsey]

Please Note the system was shut done in 2003

[JoeyDPro2009]

4:44 WHAT A PICTURE!

[2010seamus]

@JoeyDPro2009 i agree, creepy.

[SirLoinOfsteak85]

Awesome pics guys! I had no idea...!

[TheSteamdriver]

if you want to see a underground mail train then come to amberley museum in west sussex because we have one

[Mechknight73]

@TheSteamdriver When exactly were these photos taken? In some of the shots, the rails look way too shiny for the system to be disused. It would seem somebody's using them

[m0bob]

I can just about recall travelling on a narrow green underground train when I was a boy (about 1968), it was somewhere close to Bank or Monument station. Could this have been the Post Office railway (if it was open to the public) ? Or, perhaps I am totally wrong and my memory deceives me.

[relaxingfoot]

@m0bob Methinks your memory must be deceiving you. There was never any public service on Mail Rail. And its route between King Edward Building and Liverpool Street takes it beneath the junction of Moorgate and London Wall, some distance to the north of Bank. There was, though, a VIP Coach which was converted in 1967. It was painted green and was used for special runs for visitors. These usually ran from Mount Pleasant to Paddington and back, however.

[noonsight2010]

Discovered by "urban explorers"! This has been featured on tv many times. There's nothing new or mysterious. It ran from or through the Mount Pleasant sorting office in London. I can't remember where else the trains stopped.

[Gauge1channel]

This only closed in 2003 They have just been talking about it on Grate British Railway Journeys,There is nothing secret about it. You can still go down a visit today. The post office still own the railways and they still work to this day But do no use it for mail

[edj66]

Interesting that some of the trains are still there. It's a typical example of poor planning by the railways generally, the cancellation of the mail trains around the country (a very economical way of transporting mail I'd have thought) caused the POs to shut, then the mail rail was useless, became to expensive, and had to shut. What a surprise...

[CoachAlex1996]

Can you still visit this like on a tour?

[marccarless]

wait if its an old mail rail place then how come the alarm at 2:53 is new

[surfdigby]

@marccarless The railway runs between sorting offices, and some of the sorting offices are still in use, so every so often you will reach a "station" that's still open.

[penninefilms]

Shame its closed know I think it would still be a usefully railway to operate as it only carries mail.

[MetalFan10101]

i think i see a zombie

[MrBonzaiTree]

God I would love to visit this place and just play with it like a enlarged model railway, if they don't use it any more they can hardly protest at me getting some enjoyment out of it :D How do you get down to it?

[gotrickets]

I worked on the Liverpool St station for 4 years between 86 and 90. it was always called the P.O.R. (post office railway) and was quite a strange place to work. I always had trouble keeping track of time. It's disused because most of the post offices with stations have closed and the T.P.O.s (travelling post offices)[surface mail trains] were taken out of service. It had a total of 9 stations with 2 connected surface train stations. All the P.O. stations were referred to by there initials.

[123danison]

If these are disused then how come the lights are still on in the place??

[capecodunderground]

@123danison-- thats what i said.

[123danison]

@capecodunderground ino its weired there not just going to leave lights on as a fire hazard lol

[obsgr]

@capecodunderground disused from use, still storage and other things.

[AshHill07]

@capecodunderground Oh you'd be amazed how much Health and Safety bull there is related to things like this. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they have to keep the lights on just incase someone goes in illegally and injures themselfs and tries to sue them.

[DunksXD]

@capecodunderground They use them for films from time to time.

[barry8472]

@123danison lots of disused places still have lights. last fortnight i went into an ww2 fire control bunker which hasn't been use for twenty years and the lights still worked

[TheDocGoblin]

@123danison engineers may use it to get to other areas of track that would be hard to get to on busier lines i guess

[TheMarlinspike]

@123danison Because if you're special, they'll allow you down to look around. Do you think they disconnected all the lights? Doh.

[tomtomtukz]

@123danison mother natures still alive and well

[shotgunmario]

@123danison because governments are notoriously wasteful :p. And they have cameras to watch for 'terrorists' since the tunnels go to most major government buildings, so they keep the lights on to watch easier. There were 3 or 4 busts here before they finally managed to keep them 'out'. Don't think that those trams didn't run either :p

source: my friends are the guys who cracked it

[MrCookiecorpse]

@123danison A lot of disused places still have the electric still on its not uncommon.

[kyle123481]

were is this and do trains still run ????

[jimmyass]

@kyle123481 no closed

[annie482000]

@kyle123481 The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless private underground railway in London built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company,[1] it was in operation from 3 December 1927 [2] until 31 May 2003.[3]

Source: Wikipedia

[thomasrampage1]

scary station

[SMALTV]

The pic at 0:53 = Win

[modelearth]

is it not used any more?

[hstadam94]

@modelearth Yeah, it closed in 2003

[freethequeen]

nice work fellers, still looks ok down there

there was a chamber under one of the platforms that we were told held rare stamps--behind a huge steel door.

can you still get thru the tunnels?

there were massive doors down there that were supposed to shut off the tunnels in the event of flood.,,,,you can see em about 4.50 in film

[capecodunderground]

@theeyeoftheduck-in the bottom of description of the video, you will see info you ask for.

[turbonutterbastard69]

Excelent job guy's, always wondered if it was still in good condition down there.