alright boys stand clear 8 30 pm weekdays and sundays the down postal special leaves euston for glasgow edinburgh and aberdeen the postal special is a fast express but it carries no passengers half a million letters are sorted and picked up or dropped during the night this is the night mail crossing the border bringing the cheque and the postal order letters for the rich letters for the poor the shop at the corner and the girl next door five hundred million letters every year trains from bristol cardiff manchester stoke liverpool and birmingham bring a thousand bags of mail to the north this is the night mail crossing the border bringing the cheque and the postal order letters for the rich letters for the poor the shop at the corner and the girl next door pulling up beattock a steady climb the gradient s against her but she s on time this is the night mail crossing the border bringing the cheque and the postal order letters for the rich letters for the poor the shop at the corner and the girl next door pulling up beattock a steady climb the gradient s against her but she s on time past cotton grass and moorland boulder shovelling white steam over her shoulder snorting noisily as she passes silent miles of wind bent grasses birds turn their heads as she approaches stare from the bushes at her blank faced coaches this is the night mail crossing the border bringing the cheque and the postal order letters for the rich letters for the poor the shop at the corner and the girl next door pulling up beattock a steady climb the gradient s against her but she s on time shes on time shes on time