The process of delivering mail via fast train in Great Britain in 1936 is shown in this documentary (this is part 3). The poetry being recited in the second part of the film clip is by W. H. Auden.
The mechanism for the mail exchange is shown in the schematic below:
Ah, memories. Thank you very much.
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There is a Mail train in Sacramento at the California State Railway Museum.
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the schematic is not of the nineteen-thirties, more the 1880s
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