GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Moor Street Station: gwrms1733

Carman H Farley from Birmingham Moor Street Goods Depot after wining the ‘Floyd Cup’ at the annual Great Western Railway Horse parade in Birmingham on 3rd May 1937. Carman Farley had won the ‘Best turned-out goods van horse’ for the third successive year. The competition included thirty-six Goods teams and four Parcels teams. The horse is wearing its working harness, behind its collar, is a cart saddle designed to support the wagon shafts and around the hindquarters is a Breeching Buttock strap which acted as an extra braking device when descending an incline. The Stables under the Moor Street Station complex were accessed from Allison Street and were designed to accommodate sixty-seven horses and their provisions.

Robert Ferris

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