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Peter Able[_2_] · September 7th 17, 01:00 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

"Recliner" wrote in message
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On 03.09.17 13:34, Recliner wrote:
Alan Johnson on London's latest railway tourist attraction:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/squeeze-in-and-the-london-postal-museum-mail-rail-will-deliver-you-to-a-lost-world-lvvzlmr3d?shareToken=6d140e276fa1eb76fc82d64640584 d9b

Obviously he got this bit wrong ("Back in the railway's heyday,
battery-powered locomotives pulled cartloads of mail back and forth for
22
hours a day"), as the old mail trains weren't battery-operated.

This article seems to indicates that Mail Rail was a secret, at least at
one point in the past.

Was this actually the case?

I don't know that it was actually a secret, but it certainly wasn't
publicised, and of course it was invisible to the public, unlike mail
trains on the BR network or Royal Mail road vehicles.

It was publicised in several public information films.