LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Central Goods Yard: mrcgy129a

This close up of image 'mrcgy129' demonstrates just how essential cheap manpower was to the railway economy. Goods would be double, triple or even quadruple-handled from the point of dispatch to receipt by the customer. However some of the practices adopted would be considered environmental friendly today such as the practice of using minimal packaging and where used it would frequently be recyclable such as is the case with the sacks seen above.

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