9) Sometimes they move whole farms from one part of the country to another and horses, cows and sheep are frequently railway travellers. There’s a big trade in livestock with Ireland, for instance, and the railways have special accommoda-tion for livestock at Heysham, Holyhead and Fishguard. For horses there are special carriages, and in this picture we see a pony and a foal being put in a British Railways horse-box.

Livestock carried by the railways was just under a million tons in 1949, and it’s important enough to form one of the four main categories into which all freight is divided – merchandise, coal and coke, minerals, and livestock.

Now I wonder how many of you would guess right if I asked you what the next picture represents...