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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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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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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Glossary of rail transport terms (redirect from Milk train)
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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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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Conductor (rail) (redirect from Railway conductor)
mixture of the Railway Rule Book and train operating companies. In Australia, there is a combination of driver-only operated trains and trains with a guard...
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History of rail transport (redirect from History of trains)
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...
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