London Banter - View Single Post - Waterloo and City, and Post Office Station

Dave Liney · August 7th 05, 07:09 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:27:32 on Sat, 6
Aug 2005, Jock Mackirdy remarked:
The station building was in a corner of the GPO's Central Telegraph Office,
which was bomb-damaged in WWII and semi-derelict when I last saw it in the
late 1960s. The vent shafts were obviously a later replacement when the
building was demolished and the road layout changed.

Thanks. Clive thinks the building is still there, next to the church. I
suspect I may divert and have a look for myself next time I'm in town.

(One of the reasons it's interesting, apart from the tube, is that
distances "from London" were measured from here - rather than Charing
Cross as many people think.

I think you are mistaken:

http://rodcorp.typepad.com/photos/va...on_mileage.jpg

Dave