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Milk trains were a common sight on the railways of Great Britain from the early 1930s to the late 1960s. Introduced to transport drinking milk from creameries...

transport raw milk from remote dairy farms to central creameries, milk trains were the last railway-based system before the move to road transport. Post grouping...

Light Railway (L&MVLR) was a narrow gauge railway in Staffordshire, England that operated between 1904 and 1934. The line mainly carried milk from dairies...

farms to dairies, such as British Railways Milk Trains; as these trains invariably ran very early in the morning, "milk train" became a colloquialism for...

appeared in Britain around 1860, when the first railways allowed fresh milk to arrive in cities from the countryside. By 1880, the milk was delivered...

railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally...

stop the trains. A restaurant staff member aboard the express was slightly injured. Table 66 National Rail timetable, December 2022 "Railway". Kings Langley...

scheduled daily milk trains (sometimes called milk runs) to pick up loaded milk cars from collection points along their route. These trains sometimes carried...

part of the Southern Region of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The goods yard gave milk trains access to the private sidings...

mixture of the Railway Rule Book and train operating companies. In Australia, there is a combination of driver-only operated trains and trains with a guard...

completely. The SR and later the Southern Region of British Railways ran two regular milk trains up from Torrington every day, which served both the United...

English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon...

traffic was restricted to timetabled trains. (However, the tradition of private owned wagons continued on railways in Britain until the 1960s.). The S&DRs chief...

on the troop train, 9 passengers from the 2 passenger trains, 3 railway staff and 4 children, believed to be stowaways on the troop train. Col Druitt's...

signallers with routing trains. On the other railways, the reporting number was on occasion displayed at the head of the train along with the lamp headcode...

East Junction, behind the marshalling yard and the Didcot Railway Centre, allowing trains to Oxford to run through without blocking the station platforms...

Southern Railway where 30 pairs of trains are inspected every day. The yard has 14 pit lines, each 3-ft deep, to inspect undercarriage of trains, but only...

British railway termini, Paddington is owned and managed by Network Rail. Train services were privatised in 1996, initially to Great Western Trains and...

to Epping using electric trains, taking over the railway from British Railways. The Epping-Ongar branch lost its through trains to London, and there was...

vans (e.g. parcels vans, horse boxes, milk and fish vans). Their codes were an acronym of their traditional railway description, e.g. GUV for General Utility...