{"id":184580,"date":"2025-03-10T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=596361"},"modified":"2025-03-10T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:03:00","slug":"book-review-mail-rail-the-story-of-the-post-office-and-the-railways-by-peter-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=184580","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Mail Rail \u2013 The Story of the Post Office and the Railways by Peter Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"503\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-503x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Credit: RailAdvent\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-503x720.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-300x430.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-1073x1536.jpg 1073w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-750x1074.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-624x894.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover-600x859.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mail-by-Rail-cover.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/>This book tells the history of transporting mail by train, including travelling post offices, dedicated mail trains, and its own underground railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book tells the history of transporting mail by train, including travelling post offices, dedicated mail trains, and its own underground railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2279,1081,3664,2306,2366,759,106,2222,2371,47,14012,2337],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-184580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-book-review","category-ffestiniog-railway","category-great-western-railway","category-liverpool","category-london","category-manchester","category-narrow-gauge","category-pen-sword","category-rail-news","category-railadvent","category-southern","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184581,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184580\/revisions\/184581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}