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GWR Routes: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Routes: North Warwickshire Line
Moor Street Station: gwrms1107
View of the potatoes being unloaded from an LMS open wagon
on to timber staging for transhipment on to lorries at a later date. The
railways were synonymous with multiple handling of goods. Goods were often
shipped from their origin and stored in a warehouse or goods shed before being
loaded only for the operation to be reversed at the destination. Prior to the
arrival of motorised transport when labour was cheap this was not an issue but
after the First World War, and in particular the Second World War, rising
labour costs combined with the ease of directly transporting goods by road
meant that railways lost much of their goods traffic.
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