LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Salford Priors station: mrsp581a

Close up of image 'mrsp581' showing the station's booking office and goods shed and yard in greater detail. The poster boards have LMS as their title whilst the machine sited at the corner of the station building is thought to be a weighing machine for small parcels. Adjacent to the door nearest the camera is an early vending machine which would selling for one penny (1D), either be a bar of chocolate or a packet of five cigarettes Inside the goods shed is what appears to be a one or three plank wagon with a ventilated van standing behind. The goods shed would have a platform inside which allowed ports to move loads by use of their porters' barrows, the platform level being akin to the floor of the wagon. Some loads could be wheeled directly off the wagon into an adjacent road vehicle standing outside the opposite wall. The sign at the end of the platform warns passengers not to stray from the platform. The loading gauge can be seen at the far end of the yard whilst the white structure is in fact the base of the cattle pens.

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