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LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Studley & Astwood Bank Station: mrstud598a

Close up showing a rake of mineral wagons being used to transport coal and a coal merchant's lorry being loaded

Close up of image 'mrstud598' showing a rake of mineral wagons being used to transport coal and a coal merchant's lorry being loaded. Above the cab of the locomotive is a timber frame from which the loading gauge would be suspended. The loading gauge was a piece of metal shaped to the outline of the maximum dimensions permissible on the line. Railway staff would ensure railway goods vehicles passed beneath the gauge when the left the yard and that no load hit the loading gauge. To its left is one of the coal merchant's offices. The Stage seen in image 'mrstud1371' would have been located just behind the locomotive.

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