GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley Station: gwrhd675a

Close up of image 'gwrhd675' showing some of the variety of cartage road vehicles employed by the GWR at Hockley in 1940. The steady increase of mechanised transport in between the World Wars might well have been even faster had it not been for the great depression of the 1930s which acted as a break to the economy and therefore growth as well as the ability for the GWR and others to invest in petrol or diesel road vehicles. However the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939 saw the halt in decommissioning horse drawn vehicles and an increase in their use due to fuel rationing.

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