Hingeway Streets

Arcade

Arcade of shops
Arcade of shops

This image provides a feel for walking beneath the tramway, the street are brightly lit by street lights, but above that are the shadows of the box girders, and the dim gleam of pneumatic tubes that occasionally hiss and clunk as cylinders are routed to their destination.

The Pneumatic Mail Service

Hingeway is serviced by a pneumatic tube system which delivers mail and newspapers to residents; originally on the university campus, it spread out into the Borough first to the dorms, then to the rest of the Boroughs. The system is still controlled by the university, though the main sorting office has since been moved to a purpose built extension of the Hingeway Post Office. The public system uses the same punch card system as the Tramway which has the main pipes slung underneath. Other populous boroughs have tubes running to them, otherwise the mail goes via the Trams, or the Royal Mail Postal System, often described as “surface mail”.