GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour

Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm989

A view of Moreton-in-Marsh station, station staff, shunting horse and the PW gang and the branch train standing in the background. Shunting horses offered railway companies a flexible and cost-effective way of handling wagons in goods yards and were a common sight across the country. Similarly wicker baskets, as seen on the platform, were used by Victorians as early forms of containers in transporting everything from linen, clothing to pigeons. The baskets appear to have the initials G + P + O on their sides and therefore might be being used for parcel traffic. C1890

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