On 12 Apr 2004 09:50:31 GMT, (CharlesPottins)
wrote:

Next to Farringdon tube station, and part of the old Metropolitan Railway
buildings, is a "Parcels Office". Anyone tell us how long the underground was
used to send and carry parcels, and how succesful was this?

Not sure about the Met, but the Central London Railway operated such a
service between 1911 and 1917, the reason for closure being the
extreme manpower shortage towards the end of WW1.
--
Nick Cooper

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The London Underground at War:
http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm
625-Online - classic British television:
http://www.625.org.uk
'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic:
http://www.thingstocome.org.uk