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Background edit
- Tech / Tech history
- Previous attempts
Plan / rationale edit
Formation of company and raising capital edit
Trials, testing and building edit
Operation edit
Liquidation edit
In 1920 the Post Office wanted to lay telephone lines under the streets between Kingsway subway and Gray's Inn Road; Holborn Borough Council refused permission, but suggested they use the old Pneumatic Despatch Company tunnels. The tunnels proved structurally sound, but soon after work began the Pneumatic Despatch Company asked for compensation for the use of the tunnels.[1] In 1921 the Post Office paid £7,500 to buy the tunnels.[2][a] Some of the parts of the tunnels were not included in the sale, as these were where they had been breached by other buildings and utilities.[2] The transaction was confirmed by the Post Office Tube Acquisition Act, 1922.[1]
With the disposal of the final assets of the company, it was dissolved on 5 February 1924.[4]
Further events edit
- Explosion in tunnel
Other versions edit
Gallery edit
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Notes and references edit
Notes edit
- ^ £7,500 equates to approximately £420,300 in 2023, according to calculations based on the Consumer Price Index measure of inflation.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b Stray 2020c.
- ^ a b Johnson 2022, p. 370.
- ^ Clark 2023.
- ^ Wild 2010, p. 162.
Sources edit
Books edit
- Batcheller, Birney Clark (1897). The Pneumatic Despatch Tube System of the Batcheller Pneumatic Tube Co. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company.
- Bayliss, Derek A. (1978). The Post Office Railway London. Sheffield: Turntable Publications. ISBN 978-0-9028-4443-8.
- Clayton, Antony (2010). Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London. Whitstable, Kent: Historical Publications. ISBN 978-1-9052-8632-4.
- Hadfield, Charles (1985). Atmospheric Railways: a Victorian Venture in Silent Speed. Gloucester: Alan Sutton. ISBN 978-0-86299-204-0.
- Johnson, Peter (2022). Mail by Rail. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1-5267-7613-6.
- Stray, Julian (2012). Mail Trains. Oxford: Shire. ISBN 978-0-7478-1083-4.
- Wade, John (30 May 2022). Transport Curiosities, 1850–1950: Weird and Wonderful Ways of Travelling by Road, Rail, Air and Sea. Barnsley, Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Transport. ISBN 978-1-3990-0398-8.
Journals and magazines edit
- "Another Pneumatic Railway in London". Scientific American. 13 (2): 18–19. 8 July 1865. doi:10.2307/24977461.
- Bush, Charles (April 2017). "Letters in a Tube: the Rise and Demise of Pneumatic Mail". History Magazine. Vol. 18, no. 4. pp. 31–34.
- "Pneumatic Dispatch". Scientific American. 5 (14): 209. 5 October 1861. doi:10.2307/24956435.
- "Pneumatic Telegraphs and Pneumatic Powers". Scientific American. 3 (7): 105–106. 11 August 1860. doi:10.2307/24956769.
- Thompson, Harry (April 1900). "London's Lost Tunnel". The Windsor Magazine. pp. 617–625.
- Wild, Graham (November 2010). "Pneumatic Despatch". Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society. 36 (209): 160–164.
News edit
Websites edit
- Clark, Gregory (2023). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- Stray, Julian (4 June 2020a). "The Beginnings of The Pneumatic Railway". The Postal Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- Stray, Julian (11 June 2020b). "The Pneumatic Railway's Second Chance". The Postal Museum. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- Stray, Julian (18 June 2020c). "The Pneumatic Railway – The Holborn Explosion". The Postal Museum. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
- Stray, Julian (25 June 2020). "The Pneumatic Despatch Railway – The Surviving Record". The Postal Museum. Retrieved 30 May 2023.