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# Mount Pleasant Mail Centre Standing before the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, you're gazing at the birthplace of one of the world's most ingenious transportation systems. On 5 December 1927, the Post Office Railway—a revolutionary automatic electric railway—began its maiden journey beneath London's ...
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Mount Pleasant Mail Centre
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Post Office Railway Opened 5 December 1927 The first automatic electric railway and the only postal railway in the world, providing a unique solution to the problem of transporting large volumes of mail across a capital city