Date: 02/12/2016

Trains have run on the Post Office's underground rail lines in London for the first time since the service was abandoned more than a decade ago. A test drive was carried out through a section of the 'mail rail' track, which has not been used since 2003, ahead of its public opening next summer. The network was established in 1927 and stretched for 6.5 miles from Whitechapel in the east to Paddington in the west, 70 feet below street level.

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Trains run on 'mail rail' underground line for first time in a decade

Evening Standard

Trains have run on the Post Office's underground rail lines in London for the first time since the service was abandoned more than a decade ago. A test drive was carried out through a section of the "mail rail" track, which has not been used since 2003, ahead of its public opening next summer. The network was established in 1927 and stretched for 6.5 miles from Whitechapel in the east to Paddington in the west, 70 feet below street level.