GWR Route: Moreton-in-Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour

Moreton-in-Marsh Station: gwrmm991b

Close up of image 'gwrmm991' showing Moreton-in-Marsh's milk pasteurisation and bottling plant which was established in 1889. Technically the plant was a creamery (which means it processed some of the milk as well as just forwarding it on to towns in the Midlands and South West. After being opened in 1889, the plant changed hands several times before it was taken over in 1937 by United Dairies Ltd which became Unigate in 1959. In the late 1920s, United Dairies helped pioneer the sale of pasteurized milk in Britain. The company was a large user of milk trains, and in agreement with the railway companies supplied its own distinctive coloured milk containers to top the railway companies chassis. While rival Express Dairies preferred the Great Western Railway, United Dairies preferred the Southern Railway although geography sometimes got in the way of this preference!.

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