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London Post Office Railway, the Glossary

The Post Office Railway, known since 1987 as Mail Rail, is a narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices.^[1]

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Railway lines closed in 2003
Railway lines opened in 1927
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Tunnels completed in 1927
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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Czajkowski (spelt as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books; born June 1972) is a British fantasy and science fiction author.

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Bakerloo line

The Bakerloo line is a London Underground line that runs from in suburban north-west London to in south London, via the West End.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bradley Garrett

Bradley Garrett (born January 4, 1981) is an American researcher of social geography and cultural geography, writer, and photographer.

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Bruce Willis

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a retired American actor.

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.

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Charlie Higson

Charles Murray Higson (born 3 July 1958) is an English actor, comedian, author and former singer.

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Chicago Loop

The Loop, one of Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district of the city and is the main section of Downtown Chicago.

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Chicago Tunnel Company

The Chicago Tunnel Company was the builder and operator of a narrow-gauge railway freight tunnel network under downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Communication Workers Union (United Kingdom)

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, digital subscriber line (DSL) and postal delivery companies.

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Cranley Gardens railway station

Cranley Gardens railway station was a station in the Muswell Hill area of north London.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a completed railway project centred on London.

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Digital camera

A digital camera, also called a digicam, is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory.

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Double or Die

Double Or Die is the third novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s.

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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The Greater London Authority (GLA), colloquially known by the metonym City Hall, is the devolved regional governance body of Greater London, England.

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Greenwood & Batley

Greenwood & Batley were a large engineering manufacturer with a wide range of products, including armaments, electrical engineering, and printing and milling machinery.

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Hearst Magazines

Hearst Magazines is a division of Hearst Communications that oversees its magazine publishing business in the United States and abroad.

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Highgate tube station

Highgate is a London Underground station and former railway station in Archway Road, in the London Borough of Haringey in north London.

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Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk is a 1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann.

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Islington London Borough Council

Islington London Borough Council, also known as Islington Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Islington in Greater London, England.

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Laser scanning

Laser scanning is the controlled deflection of laser beams, visible or invisible.

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Launceston Steam Railway

The Launceston Steam Railway is a narrow gauge railway, in Cornwall, England.

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Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar (לביא תדהר; born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres.

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Lawrence Leonard

Lawrence Leonard (22 August 1923 – 4 January 2001) was a British conductor, cellist, composer, teacher, and writer.

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List of British heritage and private railways

This is a list of heritage, private and preserved railways throughout the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies, and British Overseas Territories whether operational or closed, that are operated for charitable purposes or shareholder profit.

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Liverpool Street station

Liverpool Street station, also known as London Liverpool Street, is a major central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the north-eastern corner of the City of London, in the ward of Bishopsgate Without.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Pneumatic Despatch Company

The London Pneumatic Despatch Company (also known as the London Pneumatic Dispatch Company) was formed on 30 June 1859, to design, build and operate an underground railway system for the carrying of mail, parcels and light freight between locations in London. London Post Office Railway and London Pneumatic Despatch Company are 2 ft gauge railways in England, History of rail transport in London, Industrial railways in England, postal history of the United Kingdom and subterranean London.

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London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock

The London Post Office Railway 1927 Stock was a type of twin-axle electric stock built in 1927 by British manufacturer English Electric.

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London Post Office Railway 1930 Stock

The London Post Office Railway 1930 Stock and 1936 Stock was built by English Electric.

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London Post Office Railway 1962 Stock

The London Post Office Railway 1962 Stock was a type of prototype rolling stock built by English Electric in 1962.

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London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock

The London Post Office Railway 1980 Stock was built by Hunslet in Leeds between 1980 and 1982.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. London Post Office Railway and London Underground are electric railways in the United Kingdom and subterranean London.

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München Hauptbahnhof

München Hauptbahnhof or Munich Central Station is the main railway station in the city of Munich, Germany.

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Mount Pleasant Mail Centre

The Mount Pleasant Mail Centre (often shortened as Mount Pleasant, known internally as the Mount and officially known as the London Central Mail Centre) is a mail centre operated by Royal Mail in London, England.

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Mowlem

Mowlem was one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in the United Kingdom.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Munich S-Bahn

The Munich S-Bahn (S-Bahn München) is an electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than.

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Oxford Circus

Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England.

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Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics (often abbreviated as PM or PopMech) is a magazine of popular science and technology, featuring automotive, home, outdoor, electronics, science, do it yourself, and technology topics.

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Postal Museum, London

The Postal Museum (formerly the British Postal Museum & Archive) is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust.

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Postal Telegraph and Telephone (Switzerland)

PTT (Post, Telefon und Telegraph, Postes, téléphones et télégraphes, Poste, telefoni e telegrafi) was the Swiss Postal Telegraph and Telephone agency, formed in 1928.

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Postmaster General of the United Kingdom

Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet ministerial position in HM Government.

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Rail (magazine)

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain.

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a British monthly business magazine and news website covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Real-time computing

Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response.

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Royal Mail

The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company.

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Selfridges

Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of upscale department stores in the United Kingdom that is operated by Selfridges Retail Limited, part of the Selfridges Group of department stores.

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Simulacrum

A simulacrum (simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, meaning "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.

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Sorting office

A sorting office or processing and distribution center (P&DC; name used by the United States Postal Service (USPS)) is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or local sorting office, or to another postal administration.

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Subterranean London

Subterranean London refers to a number of subterranean structures that lie beneath London.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Horn of Mortal Danger

The Horn of Mortal Danger is a 1980 novel by British musician Lawrence Leonard.

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The Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal

The Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal (POEEJ) was a quarterly technical journal published by the Institution of Post Office Electrical Engineers between 1908 and 1982.

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The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.

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Third rail

A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

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Today's Railways UK

Today's Railways UK is an English-based monthly magazine covering rail transport in Great Britain.

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Tony Benn

Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Travelling Post Office

A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route. London Post Office Railway and Travelling Post Office are postal infrastructure in the United Kingdom.

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Tunnelling shield

A tunnelling shield is a protective structure used during the excavation of large, human-made tunnels.

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Underground Electric Railways Company of London

The Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited (UERL), known operationally as the Underground for much of its existence, was established in 1902.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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Urban exploration

Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex, and sometimes known as roof and tunnel hacking) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment.

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Vatican City

Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.

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Whitechapel

Whitechapel is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Young Bond

Young Bond is a series of young adult spy novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College in the 1930s.

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Zürich Hauptbahnhof

Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to Zürich HB, or just HB; Zürich Main Station or Zürich Central Station) is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe.

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Zurich

Zurich (Zürich) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway

Also known as London Mail Rail, London Post Office Railway electric locomotives, London Post Office Railway rolling stock, Mail Rail, Mail Rail London, Mail Rail, London, MailRail, Post Office (London) Railway Act 1913, Post Office Railway, Post Office Railway (London), Underground Postal Railway.

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London Post Office Railway, the Glossary

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See also

Electric railways in the United Kingdom

History of rail transport in London

Postal history of the United Kingdom

Postal infrastructure in the United Kingdom

Railway lines closed in 2003

Railway lines opened in 1927

Subterranean London

Tunnels completed in 1927

Tunnels in London

References