JRS: In article , seen in
news:uk.transport.london, Paul Terry
posted at Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:39:08 :-

Were there ever any passenger services along the canals?

Not as far as I know. Canals were designed for shipping heavy good and
were (and are) incredibly slow. It would probably have been quicker for
a passenger to walk!

Read the beginning of "Hornblower and the 'Atropos'" by C S Forester.

Gloucester to London at a penny a mile first class; reaching 9 mph. Are
you a brisk walker?

Granted, it does not prove passenger services along canals within 1829
London.

There may be references in Patrick O'Brian, too.

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