LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Camp Hill Station: mrch498a

Close up of image 'mrch498' showing the variety of open and covered wagons using Camp Hill goods yard in the early 1930s. The majority of open wagons are being used for the transportation of coal and are owned either by the merchant selling the coal on to domestic customers, the carrier or by the colliery producing the coal. In the photograph above we can see the following businesses providing this service, the LMS - the carrier, Griff - the colliery, in this case from Nuneaton and Birmingham Cooperative Society, George Harwood and Alfred Jukes all coal merchants.

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