This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door.
Is this poem familiar to you? It’s part of the movie Night Mail, a 1936 documentary film about a LMS (London, Midland and Scottish) Railway mail train.
We’ve talked about the Railway Post Offices before, but on this documentary, you can actually see them in action:Isn’t it fascinating? The on-board mail…
