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Post by sm on Dec 3, 2006 6:11:49 GMT
hey,
I was looking around at station diagrams and noticed that there is infact a system called MailRail!
Unfortuanately its been mothballed, but does anyone know if its being planned to be reopened?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2006 6:38:01 GMT
Hi
No- sadly there are no plans to re-open it at the moment. The main problem with it is that the sorting offices which it serves have had their work and distribution routes changed in recent times.
It's a real shame; MailRail was a fascinating system. I got to look around it at Mount Pleasant one night during Christmas Operations in 1991.
The current financial climate within Royal Mail seems to be hampering any sensible thinking.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2006 15:19:10 GMT
But, as I seem to remember, some of the offices it served, are closed now... Perhaps this system could be sold off and used for unground cycleways or similar. I know the tunnels are smaller in diameter than the tube ones, but how small I don't know...
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Post by Tubeboy on Dec 7, 2006 15:41:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2006 17:59:27 GMT
The current financial climate within Royal Mail seems to be hampering any sensible thinking. What's so sensible about keeping a system open that serves no purpose because it can only bring mail from a place where it isn't to a place you don't want it to go and only costs money? The only purpose for keeping it open would be for rail-geeks like us to have a tour once every ten years or seeing the occasional new photo appear on the web. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2006 3:53:37 GMT
The current financial climate within Royal Mail seems to be hampering any sensible thinking. What's so sensible about keeping a system open that serves no purpose because it can only bring mail from a place where it isn't to a place you don't want it to go and only costs money? The only purpose for keeping it open would be for rail-geeks like us to have a tour once every ten years or seeing the occasional new photo appear on the web. I meant within RM generally. |
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