post office underground mail train - london
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Poster, General Post Office, Post Office Underground Mail Train, London by Lili Rethi, 1935. Coloured lithograph depicting a narrow gauge automated mail train at a station. Post Office workers are loading and unloading containers of mail. The London Post Office Railway operated from 1927 to 2003, and was used to move rail between sorting offices on narrow gauge, driverless trains. Format: quad royal. Dimensions: 40 x 50 ins.
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- Category:
- Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills
- Object Number:
- 1995-7758
- Materials:
- paper
- Measurements:
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overall: 1016 mm x 1270 mm
- type:
- poster
- credit:
- Christies
