Construction News Photograph - Where is it?
On Feb 29, 7:29*pm, Paul Terry wrote:
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Was freight ever carried on the London Underground, even if it was in off
hours?
As Mizter T said, it was - but really only on the sub-surface lines.
Freight certainly passed over the District lines, since there were
Midland Railway goods depots at Kensington High Street and at West
Kensington (accessed from an east-facing spur at West Kensington). The
Met also carried freight right into the city - it had its own good yard
at Vine Street, just north of Farringdon.
The only case of a tube line carrying any sort of freight that I can
think of is the Central London Railway (now the central line), which
operated a "Lightning Parcel Express" service in its early days -
packages were carried on the tube and then delivered to individual
addresses by delivery boys on tricycles with a large box on the front.
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Paul Terry
Plenty of goods yards lasted on the eastern end of the Central line
long after transfer to LT. According to Joe Brown's "London Railway
Atlas" goods services ran till 1965-1970 (In fact the last passenger
DMUs ran in 1970)
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