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There is an abandoned railway network 60th underneath London but it wasn’t part of the London Underground. It had one purpose to move mail across London as quickly as possible. The Post Office Railway (The Mail Rail) didn't just deliver mail within London but across the whole world. But at its peak in 2003, the whole network suddenly shut down and was abandoned. Overnight this railway went from delivering 4 million items a day to zero. In this episode, Andy goes underground to discover So if it was so important then why was it left to be forgotten?

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Faultline is produced by Andy Burgess.
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Faultline was launched in the summer of 2022 by documentarian Andy Burgess. He has spent the majority of the past decade travelling across the world, producing, hosting, filming, and editing videos for himself and brands like Red Bull, Helly Hansen, & Terra Matter. He started making short form content on Snapchat and was nominated for a Shorty Award in 2018, before moving the focus of his stories into video journalism, guiding audiences through stories from across the world. His series ‘Origins’ with Red Bull explored the history of extreme sports, the communities behind them and how they have gone on to affect the cultures of today. Faultline is a channel that combines of on-the-ground reporting, research, and filmmaking to tell the stories of how humanity is understood through geography.

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Sources 🔗
https://lookup.london/walking-mail-ra...
https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/the...
https://www.postalmuseum.org/collecti...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8288148...
https://postalmuseum.org/wp-content/u...
Royal Mail Group plc, Interim Report 2002/03, pp. 2 and 39
https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/defau...
https://web.archive.org/web/200907051...
https://www.mailrail.co.uk/future.html

Time Stamps:
0:00 London's abandoned underground railway.
01:08 How we used to communicate.
2:50 Royal Mail's big problem.
3:47 The plan for The Post Office Railway.
4:20 Is the railway still accessible?
6:21 Exploring London's abandoned underground.
7:03 How the Mail Rail works.
8:20 The success of the Mail Rail.
9:02 The Train graveyard.
9:38 Delivery services in the 21st century.
10:09 What's left of the Mount Pleasant station.
10:50 The rise of automation.
12:47 Financial struggles
13:44 The Mail Rail's legacy