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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • scheduled daily milk trains (sometimes called milk runs) to pick up loaded milk cars from collection points along their route. These trains sometimes carried...
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    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...
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    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...
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    stop the trains. A restaurant staff member aboard the express was slightly injured. Table 66 National Rail timetable, December 2022 "Railway". Kings Langley...
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    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...
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