'Mail Rail' hidden beneath London's streets to open to public for first time

A stretch of railway hidden beneath London’s streets will open to the public in July.

The Postal Museum including the 'Mail Rail', a 22-mile long electric railway line once used by the Royal Mail, has announced it will be opening its doors later this year.

The public has never been able to visit the hidden railway line, which will open as a visitor attraction at the museum.

Based under the Mount Pleasant Post Office in Clerkenwell, the exhibition will give an insight into the former working rail line below street level.

Left behind trains have also been transformed to allow passengers a short ride across the line as part of a National Lottery Fund backed project.

A spokesman for the Postal Museum said: “Celebrating the surprising and quirky history of Britain’s earliest social network, the post, the museum itself contains five interactive zones, leading visitors through five centuries of world-class curiosities and providing a different view on a number of the world’s most significant historical events.”

Tickets for the much-anticipated exhibition are set to go on sale at the end of May.