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Paul Terry · February 29th 08, 06:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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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