GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Knowle & Dorridge: gwrkd2801c

Close up of image 'gwrkd2801' showing Knowle and Dorridge's new cattle dock which incorporated a concrete apron as protection to the track. In the centre of the concrete apron is a gully which would take away the inevitable urine that would drip from the wagons when the livestock was being loaded. Each section of pens would be able to accommodate a number of cattle or sheep, one pen for each wagon. Behind the cattle pen are four timber huts probably being used by the coal merchants based at the goods yard.

Robert Ferris

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