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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Hockley Station: gwrhd709a
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Close up of image 'gwrhd709' showing Box Vans and open
wagons at Platform No 2 within Top shed being loaded. The process of collection
and transhipment was a very structured affair reflecting the number of items
being distributed to many hundreds of places in the country via tens of
thousands of vehicles. At Hockley the process started with the cartage team
delivering the goods collected from customers throughout the town. Unloaded by
a team of four - a checker who was in charge, a call-offer and two goods
porters, as the caller-offer unloaded the goods he would check these against
the consignment notes and call out the details of the sender and the
destination to the checker who would endorse the paperwork that all was
correct. The Checker would then advise the call-offer as to which wagon the
items should be sent to for loading. The call-offer would then load the
consignment on to a trolley and tell him the deck and wagon he should take the
goods to. All checkers were advised in writing for each shift the location of
each wagon and their destinations. Not until all items to be sent had been
received would the wagon or Van be loaded.
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