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Pneumatic Rail Car, c. 1860, used on the Pneumatic Despatch Company's lines

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Background

• Tech / Tech history
• Previous attempts

Formation of company and raising capital

Prospectus and receipt for shares

Prospectus for the Pneumatic Despatch Company

A receipt for the purchase of 18 shares at £1 each in July 1863

Liquidation

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. In 1921 the Post Office paid £7,500 to buy the tunnels. 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. The transaction was confirmed by the Post Office Tube Acquisition Act, 1922.

With the disposal of the final assets of the company, it was dissolved on 5 February 1924.

Further events

Explosion of the pneumatic tubes beneath Holborn, 1928

• Explosion in tunnel

Gallery

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See also

• London Post Office Railway

Notes and references

Sources

Books

• 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

• "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

Websites

• 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.

Other

• Prospectus: Pneumatic Despatch Company (Limited). London: Pneumatic Despatch Company. 1859. OCLC 504296458.

External links

• London's Victorian Hyperloop