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Subterranea is sexy

Our strange fascination with tunnels, bunkers, and all things underground

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

‘Sometimes when I’m down here,’ says Harry, ‘I get them to stop the train in the middle of a tunnel. Just for a minute or two, so I can savour the peace.’

Harry Huskisson is press officer for the British Postal Museum and Archive. He’s showing me the ‘Mail Rail’, the GPO’s underground train system, which until 2003 carried letters across London.

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