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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton LMS Route:
Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Lawley Street Goods Depot: mrls433
View of a Midland Railway Austin petrol driven delivery
vehicle at Lawley Street Goods depot delivering machined castings in 1916 in
this clearly posed photograph (otherwise the men would instinctively be looking
at the camera). As was common with all of the railway companies, the
introduction of motorised transport was soon adopted as an alternative to
horse-drawn traffic although it wasn't until the 1950s that they finally
supplanted horse-drawn transport. All British railway companies operated the
same deliver and collection service operated by the LNWR and GWR which involved
delivering goods to customers in the morning and collecting their customer's
goods for rail shipment in the afternoon.
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