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

Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm994

Looking towards Worcester from the Oxford end of the down platform with a substantial number of milk churns standing on the platform waiting for the next train. Milk churns were for many years the only way farmers could move milk practically before road tankers came into being. The size of the churns was dictated by the weight of milk a man could carry. Their carriage by rail was only cost-effective because Parliament had decreed railways as 'common carriers' meaning that the cost of transporting milk was subject to legislation. July 1931

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