London Post Office Railway - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • The railway features in the novel The Horn of Mortal Danger in which there is a connecting tunnel to a secret railway to the North London network. The only other known connection is in the disused tunnel between Highgate and the disused Cranley Gardens.
  • The railway appears in the film Hudson Hawk as 'Poste Vaticane' in the Vatican City. Bruce Willis (as Hawk) stows away in one of the mail containers.
  • A mail train system closely based on the railway is in Charlie Higson's third Young Bond book, Double or Die.

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