This article appeared in the August 10, 2017 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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A message of love

Rail, first built for mail

Hannah McKay/Reuters
A museum worker sits in a battery-powered train on the Mail Rail tracks of the Mount Pleasant Sorting Office underground station in London. The six-mile postal line, put into service in 1915 as a way of sidestepping the street traffic above, was decommissioned in 2003. It will reopen next month as a tourist attraction.

This article appeared in the August 10, 2017 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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