British railway milk trains information

Milk trains were a common sight on the railways of Great Britain from the early 1930s to the late 1960s. Introduced to transport drinking milk from creameries...

transport raw milk from remote dairy farms to central creameries, milk trains were the last railway-based system before the move to road transport. Post grouping...

appeared in Britain around 1860, when the first railways allowed fresh milk to arrive in cities from the countryside. By 1880, the milk was delivered...

scheduled daily milk trains (sometimes called milk runs) to pick up loaded milk cars from collection points along their route. These trains sometimes carried...

stop the trains. A restaurant staff member aboard the express was slightly injured. Table 66 National Rail timetable, December 2022 "Railway". Kings Langley...

Light Railway (L&MVLR) was a narrow gauge railway in Staffordshire, England that operated between 1904 and 1934. The line mainly carried milk from dairies...

farms to dairies, such as British Railways Milk Trains; as these trains invariably ran very early in the morning, "milk train" became a colloquialism for...

English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon...

railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally...

Southern Railway where 30 pairs of trains are inspected every day. The yard has 14 pit lines, each 3-ft deep, to inspect undercarriage of trains, but only...

completely. The SR and later the Southern Region of British Railways ran two regular milk trains up from Torrington every day, which served both the United...

traffic was restricted to timetabled trains. (However, the tradition of private owned wagons continued on railways in Britain until the 1960s.). The S&DRs chief...

on the troop train, 9 passengers from the 2 passenger trains, 3 railway staff and 4 children, believed to be stowaways on the troop train. Col Druitt's...

to Epping using electric trains, taking over the railway from British Railways. The Epping-Ongar branch lost its through trains to London, and there was...

completely. The SR and later the Southern Region of British Railways ran two regular milk trains up from Torrington every day, which served both the United...

East Junction, behind the marshalling yard and the Didcot Railway Centre, allowing trains to Oxford to run through without blocking the station platforms...

the milk churn was introduced, based on the tall conical shape of the butter churn. Later large railway containers, such as the British Railway Milk Tank...

British railway termini, Paddington is owned and managed by Network Rail. Train services were privatised in 1996, initially to Great Western Trains and...

signallers with routing trains. On the other railways, the reporting number was on occasion displayed at the head of the train along with the lamp headcode...

South Acton railway station on the North London Line. This gave easy and equal access for milk trains from both the Great Western Railway and the Southern...

traffic was handled here. The Bradshaws Railway guide of 1 March 1850 showed Ilford trains on table 33 with eight trains on a weekday (noting that Saturday...

part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The goods yard gave milk trains access to the private sidings...

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales...

The Railway Series (1945-2011) is a series of British books by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry (Books 1-26) and Christopher Awdry (Books 27-42). Unless otherwise...

a near 170-year preference for trains. Mail trains had long been part of the tradition of the railways in Great Britain, famously celebrated in the film...

1923 the LSWR became a part of the larger Southern Railway (SR). Sidings for dedicated milk trains to serve a new creamery were laid on the south side...

vans (e.g. parcels vans, horse boxes, milk and fish vans). Their codes were an acronym of their traditional railway description, e.g. GUV for General Utility...

series of enclosed milk churn transport wagons built by the Great Western Railway and continued by British Railways. The GWR, being a railway system which served...