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LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton
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Lawley Street Goods Depot: mrls433

View of a Midland Railway Austin petrol driven delivery vehicle at Lawley Street Goods depot delivering machined castings in 1916

View of a Midland Railway Austin petrol driven delivery vehicle at Lawley Street Goods depot delivering machined castings in 1916 in this clearly posed photograph (otherwise the men would instinctively be looking at the camera). As was common with all of the railway companies, the introduction of motorised transport was soon adopted as an alternative to horse-drawn traffic although it wasn't until the 1950s that they finally supplanted horse-drawn transport. All British railway companies operated the same deliver and collection service operated by the LNWR and GWR which involved delivering goods to customers in the morning and collecting their customer's goods for rail shipment in the afternoon.

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