LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Kings Heath Station: mrkh729a

Close up showing the MR local passenger train departing the station whilst coal wagons are being unloaded in the short siding opposite. On the right is one of the many milk churns that was an every day feature of railway stations, both large and small, urban or rural. Milk was for many years transported between the farms outside of the towns of Britain and the shops and dairies in the cities and towns. Parliament had fixed the cost of transporting goods by rail so the cost of moving milk by rail was economical to the benefit of the consumer, farmer and merchant.

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