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GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour
Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm994
Looking towards Worcester from the Oxford end of the down
platform with a substantial number of milk churns standing on the platform
waiting for the next train in July 1931. Milk churns were for many years the
only way farmers could move milk practically before road tankers came into
being. The size of the churns was dictated by the weight of milk a man could
carry. Their carriage by rail was only cost-effective because Parliament had
decreed railways as 'common carriers' meaning that the cost of transporting
milk was subject to legislation.
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