Synopsis
In the GPO's Night Mail film, the train picks up mail at Carnforth Station in Lancashire. Ten years later, the same station provided the backdrop for the film Brief Encounter.
Further Information
Other Archive resources
Alan Johnson: The Post Office and Me | WH Auden's "Night Mail"
Alan Johnson MP (and former postman) takes a ride on a Travelling Post Office - one of the mail-sorting trains that used to criss-cross the nation through the night and that were immortalised in the film Night Mail.
Thinking Allowed | Work identity on the railway
Tim Strangleman discusses his study into work identity and 'loss': how older railway workers have reacted to change in their industry.