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Poet Lemn Sissay retraces the route taken by the mail train in WH Auden's famous poem Night Mail
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Lemn talks to the people who catch and dispatch the trains.
Mar 2007
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Lemn leaves London at the same time Auden's Down Special mail train would have departed.
Mar 2007
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Lemn's journey is complete, but will a dawn arrival at Glasgow help him finish his poem?
Mar 2007
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The train picks up mail at the station used as the backdrop for the film Brief Encounter.
Mar 2007
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Lemn meets a man who spent 30 years working on the travelling post offices.
Mar 2007