Editing London Post Office Railway (section)

===Redevelopment and preservation===
[[File:All Aboard the Mail Rail (44303391761).jpg|thumb|Tour carriages on the Mail Rail at the Postal Museum]]
In October 2013, the [[Postal Museum, London|British Postal Museum & Archive]] announced that it intended opening part of the network to the public.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25918218|publisher=[[BBC News]]|title=Mail Rail: The hidden trains under London's streets}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://postalmuseum.org/mail-rail|publisher=[[Postal Museum, London|British Postal Museum & Archive]]|title=Mail Rail}}</ref> After approval was granted by [[Islington London Borough Council|Islington Council]], work on the new museum and the railway began in 2014.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/14/mail-rail|title=Ride London's abandoned underground 'Mail Rail'|last=Solon|first=Olivia|date=14 March 2014|magazine=Wired UK|access-date=8 June 2014}}</ref> Special tourist trains were installed in late 2016. It was planned to open a circular route, running beneath the depot at Mount Pleasant with a journey time of around 15 minutes, by mid-2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.postalmuseum.org/discover/attractions/mail-rail-ride/|title=Ride Mail Rail - The Postal Museum -}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jul/28/mail-rail-underground-london-postal-museum|title=Mail Rail delivers an underground history lesson at London's new Postal Museum|first=Priya|last=Khaira-Hanks|date=28 July 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://postalmuseum.org/discover/attractions/|title=Attractions {{!}} The Postal Museum {{!}} Opening July 2017|work=The Postal Museum|access-date=2017-04-24|language=en-US}}</ref> The museum opened on 5 September.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/02/engineer-lends-voice-to-mail-rail-tours-as-secret-world-opens-to-public|title=Engineer lends voice to Mail Rail tours as secret world opens to public|last=Kennedy|first=Maev|date=2017-09-02|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-09-06|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In its first year of operation (2017&ndash;2018), the trains performed 9,000 trips totalling {{convert|6213|mi|-1}}, with the railway and museum hosting over 198,000 visitors.<ref>{{cite magazine |editor1-last=Milner |editor1-first=Chris |title=Rail Mail's first year of success |magazine=[[The Railway Magazine]] |date=October 2018 |volume=164 |issue=1,411 |page=10 |publisher=Mortons Media |location=Horncastle |issn=0033-8923}}</ref>