On Feb 27, 11:55*am, Laurence Payne NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com
wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:51:42 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

Which also has that enormous bus station:
http://flickr.com/photos/stephenk1977/213485407/

Which services possibly the least number of busses of any London
station :-)

66, 296, 396. More than one at least! Remember it's a bus stand not a
station. Westbound 66 especially turns round here sometimes. Also
useful for rail replacement.

Still a massive structure, considering it's rare to find more than one
'bus at a time passing through!



BTW I supplied all but the main picture on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbury_Park_tube_station

It's been my local station for 30 years and I never knew there was a
synagogue on the premises! *Where's the entrance?

Well I only supplied the pics not the text! I asked that same question
on the Talk page of the article, but no response! I have searched the
entire station and nothing says "Ohel David" on it!

On Feb 29, 7:29*pm, Paul Terry wrote:
In message ,
writes

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.
--
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)