Wild Swan Books
GWR Goods Services: Part 2B Goods Depots and Their Operation
Tony Atkins
Softback - 199 pages - £25.95
Contents- The Bristol Area Depots
- Canon's Marsh
- Temple Meads
- Pylle Hill
- Lawrence Hill
- St. Phillip's Marsh
- Bristol West Depot
- Bristol East Depot
- The Birmingham Area Depots
- Hockley
- Bordesley & Small Heath
- Moor Street
- Handsworth & Smethwick
- Soho & Winson Green
- Oldbury Town
- Newtown
- Canton
- Tyndall Street
- Bute Road
- Some Smaller Depots
- Ross-on-Wye
- Improvements
- New Facilities into the Great War
- The 1920s
- Morpeth Dock
- Wolverhampton (Herbert Street)
- Developments in the 1930s
- The Second World War and Beyond
Volume 2A in the series dealt (i) with those features of operation common to all GWR goods depots and (ii) provided detailed information on those depots in and around London. This volume, 2B, provides details of some representative large and small goods depots elsewhere on the system.
Although published in two volumes, the story of GWR goods depots and the services they provided with their various interconnected themes, flows through both volumes and they should be considered as one continuous book. The Appendix to Volume 2B includes lists of station trucks, their loading plans, numbering and routes. As with Volume 2A, this book is profusely illustrated with photographs and maps of the goods depots covered.
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