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red mail car with large wheels and an open top where the mailsacks are placed
Pneumatic Rail Car, c. 1860, used on the Pneumatic Despatch Company's lines

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Background

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  • Tech / Tech history
  • Previous attempts

Plan / rationale

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Formation of company and raising capital

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Prospectus and receipt for shares
Copy of the prospectus for the company; a three-page document
Prospectus for the Pneumatic Despatch Company
A receipt for 18 shares in the Pneumatic Despatch Company
A receipt for the purchase of 18 shares at £1 each in July 1863

Trials, testing and building

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Operation

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Liquidation

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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

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A view of Holborn showing the road collapsed where the tubes have exploded under the road surface.
Explosion of the pneumatic tubes beneath Holborn, 1928
  • Explosion in tunnel

Other versions

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See also

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Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ £7,500 equates to approximately £420,300 in 2023, according to calculations based on the Consumer Price Index measure of inflation.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Stray 2020c.
  2. ^ a b Johnson 2022, p. 370.
  3. ^ Clark 2023.
  4. ^ Wild 2010, p. 162.

Sources

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Books

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  • 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

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News

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Websites

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Other

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