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Site ID :- GTL02767
Key Words :- mail rail
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GTL02564,Post Office Railway

Address :- Rosebery Avenue, London, Greater London, WC1X 0DA
Grid Reference :- TQ 311 824
Grid Co-ordinates :- Easting 531100 m, Northing 182400 m
Lat & Long (WGS84) :- 51.525305 , -0.111623
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Administrative Area :- Islington
Pre 1974 County :- Greater London Council
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
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Contributor :- GLIAS Database - 2 June 2018
Contributors Society :- Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
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Description and History

Station on the Post Office Railway 54 feet below surface. There are reversing loops at each end of the station, and a link tunnel at a gradient of 1 in 20 to the cut-and-cover car depot and workshops alongside Phoenix Street at the rear of the main surface buildings. Also a shaft and gantry crane allowing rolling stock to be lifted to or from the surface yard. There are four lifts linking to the surface building, and chutes for post bags, and stairs. The computerised control room is on the ? 1st / ? 2nd floor of the main building.

Although authorised in 1913 and commenced in 1914 the completed tunnels were used for wartime storage of museum / art gallery objects until 1919. Contracts were let for completion of electrical and signalling installations in 1924. The first trains ran in 1927, full services commencing in 1928. Headings were provided at the west end of the station for planned extension lines (one to the northern district office, and a loop line to serve Euston, the north western district office, St Pancras and King's Cross) but these were never made.

Further Reading and References

https://www.postalmuseum.org/visit-us/what-to-expect/mail-rail/

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