Festive tunnel walks through the Mail Rail tunnels with a special section opening onto a Christmas scene built by former Mail Rail employees.
The Postal Museum is bringing back its Festive Tunnel Walks this winter, with dates on 28 November and then 5, 12 and 19 December. If you've done the museum's usual Tunnel Walks before, you'll recognise the route, but these add an extra section of tunnel that opens onto a surprise festive scene built by former Mail Rail employees. It's a bit of a hidden section of the network, so you get to see a part of the tunnels that doesn't usually open to the public.
The walks run alongside the museum's Christmas exhibition, which gathers its collection of letters between children and Father Christmas dating back to 1963, alongside the responses sent by Royal Mail over the years. There's also the first commercial Christmas card from 1843, distributed the same week as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The exhibition stays open until 2 January, so you can go back to it after the walks have finished.
The Mail Rail itself gets its annual festive makeover of projections and audio. You'll hear wartime wives wishing their husbands a Merry Christmas and the broadcast of the first King's Speech on the BBC. It's a nice bit of atmosphere to carry you through the ride, and it fits the whole Christmas theme the museum leans into this time of year.
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Tickets to the museum include your first ride on the Mail Rail and unlimited access to the exhibitions and galleries for a year, so you can come back as often as you like until the end of the season. The festive tunnel walks run on 28 November, 5 December, 12 December and 19 December, and the Christmas exhibition runs until 2 January.
