An exciting new develpment is currently under construction at the Nene Valley Railway, an International Travelling Post Office Museum. The museum is in the final planning stage and is to be built oposite the station building at Ferry Meadows. The aim of the museum is to tell the story of mail by rail to be called 'Night Mail'.

The poem 'Night Mail' is well known and has provided countless people with inspiration, knowledge and enjoyment over the years.

Our new museum will act as a bold illustration of this poem by replicating the night time working atmosphere of a busy station, where the visitors will be able to 'step inside' the coaches that carried the night mail. This will provide an insight as to how mail was delievered not just in the 20th century but all the way back to the late 19th.

There will also be a chance to glimps at the international transfer of mail as it makes its way accross Europe, stored in the fourgons of another train of the night the famous sleeping car expresses of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits of which two cars are currently under restoration at the Nene Valley Railway.

The Nene Valley Railway boasts an established collection of historic travelling post offices and international coaches. It is both a pleasure and a duty as custodians of this excellent collection to both display & conserve the vehicals for not just our education and enjoyment but also that of future generations. The museum will provide a 6 coach exhibition hall, 6 coach running shed for in service TPOs, 2 coach maintainence shed, classroom facilities, archive rooms for school groups and serios study, along with usual museum facilities such as a restaurant, cloakrooms & shop.

This musuem will not only be world class but also unique in the world with its international collection of traveling post offices.

Plans

Plans for the Museum are in the final planning stages, once aproval has been obtained. Plans will be published here.

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Work So Far

September 08:

During september we were pleased to enlist the help of the army for site clearence work for the museum and assembling track point work for future installation.