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    The Post Office Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from...
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    The London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock was built by Hunslet in Leeds between 1980 and 1982. The units were originally ordered from Greenbat, but the...
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    The London Post Office Railway 1930 Stock and 1936 Stock was built by English Electric. These units comprised the bulk of the fleet from the 1930s until...
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  • The London Post Office Railway 1962 Stock was a type of prototype rolling stock built by English Electric in 1962. Two units were built as prototypes for...
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    In Canada and the United States, a railway post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service...
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    The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910, the headquarters...
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    Glasgow to London TPO train Night Mail - Film and poem about Travelling Post Office Railways (Conveyance of Mails) Act 1838 Railway post office - North American...
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    The London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock was a type of twin-axle electric stock built in 1927 by British manufacturer English Electric. Ninety of these...
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  • Royal Mail (redirect from Post Office mail)
    by Royal Engineers (Postal Section) and Royal Air Force. The London Post Office Railway was opened in 1927. In 1941, an airgraph service was introduced...
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  • railway, the London Post Office Railway, was constructed by the Post Office, fell into disuse and has now become a tourist attraction. Closed London Underground...
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    A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and...
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    Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a major central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern...
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  • W postcode area (redirect from London W2)
    It was a stop on the former London Post Office Railway, which has been mothballed since 2003. The Western District Office was initially on Wimpole Street...
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    The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the...
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    Chicago Tunnel Company (category 2 ft gauge railways in the United States)
    was entirely underground. It inspired the construction of the London Post Office Railway. The city of Chicago granted the newly formed Illinois Telephone...
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  • Office (1830–2004) was a service where post was sorted en route The London Post Office Railway (1927–2003) operated in dedicated tunnels under London...
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  • E postcode area (redirect from London E17)
    E98. The Eastern District Office is on Whitechapel Road and was the eastern terminus for the former London Post Office Railway, which has been mothballed...
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  • Railways London Post Office Railway, London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock and London Post Office Railway 1962 Stock Wellington N.Z. suburban railway...
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    station and depot on the London Post Office Railway, which connected a number of Royal Mail offices and railways stations across London. In 1979 Mount Pleasant...
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  • Hanworth/Hampton, London. London Museum of Water & Steam, Kew Bridge, Brentford, London Mail Rail, short section of the former London Post Office Railway opened...
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    The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required...
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  • points. Terminal railway post offices operated generally from 1913-1914 into the mid-1960s, before their function was absorbed by post office sectional centers...
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    Office (1980). The Inner London Letter Post. H.M.S.O. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-10-251580-0. "The Essex, Greater London and Hertfordshire (County and London...
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    Museum of London and the other in the National Railway Museum at York. London Post Office Railway Wikimedia Commons has media related to London Pneumatic...
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  • WC postcode area (redirect from London WC2)
    Strand. The Western Central District Office was on New Oxford Street, a stop on the underground London Post Office Railway. Deliveries for the area come from...
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    Paddington, also known as London Paddington, is a London railway station and London Underground station complex, located on Praed Street in the Paddington...
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    The Old Post Office, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, is located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue...
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    Euston railway station (/ˈjuːstən/ YOO-stən; or London Euston) is a major central London railway terminus managed by Network Rail in the London Borough...
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  • The Post Office Railway, a private Tube line for carrying mail, opens. 21 December ("Slippery Wednesday"): 1,600 people are hospitalised in London when...
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    Sea tunnel List of funicular railways London Post Office Railway Mainline steam trains in Great Britain National Railway Museum Rail transport by country...
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