Background British Railway Milk Tank Wagon

typical pre-world war scene of milk churns waiting picked milk train, recreated @ quorn , woodhouse station on preserved great central railway

post grouping in 1923, of 282,000,000 imperial gallons (12,800,000 hl; 339,000,000 us gal) of milk transported rail 4 national railways companies, great western railway had largest share of milk traffic, serving rural , highly agricultural west of england , south wales; followed lms collected cumbria , north wales; southern particularly somerset , dorset railway; , lner east anglia.

often, milk delivered direct farmer local railway station in milk churns. remove need moving unprocessed milk 1 container another, , hence potential cross contamination or need install hygienic washing facilities, decision taken transport milk churns. 1880s, gwr had introduced popular gwr siphon series of passenger carriage chassis-based high-speed , ventilated enclosed wagons, volumes rising , production systems changing, transport system had change.