New Covent Garden Market

New Covent Garden Market occupies the site of what was once the sprawling Nine Elms locomotive depot and railway goods yard. Before the market opened here in nineteen seventy-four, the area was a hub of steam train activity, echoing with the noise of engines shunting coal wagons. The transition from a heavy industrial railway site to a center for fresh produce was a massive logistical shift, designed specifically to accommodate the modern era of refrigerated lorries and forklift trucks that the original central London location could no longer support.