London’s Lost Subway | The Abandoned Mail Rail

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Beneath the streets of central London lies one of the city’s strangest forgotten systems: a fully automated underground railway built entirely for mail. For more than 76 years, unmanned electric trains quietly carried millions of letters beneath London’s busiest streets—hidden from maps and unknown to the public. This was the Mail Rail, a secret subway designed to bypass traffic and keep the British postal system moving at industrial scale.

In this episode, we uncover why London built an underground railway just for mail, how it worked without drivers, and why it ultimately became obsolete. From Victorian congestion and early automation to World War bombings and modern logistics, this forgotten tunnel network reveals how cities once solved problems we now take for granted—and why even the most advanced infrastructure can be left behind.

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