GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Hockley and Duddeston: gwrhd705

Although this view is thought to have been taken in 1927 the most remarkable thing is that not one motor lorry is in sight. The horse-drawn wagon was the staple vehicle of the railway companies up to the beginning of the First World War but rapidly in the inter-war period motorised transport took its place. The onset of the Second World War and petrol rationing caused the horse-drawn vehicle to last at least another ten years longer than would otherwise be the case.

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