14) And here we have the last link in the chain, the delivery of goods to a farm in Wiltshire by the British Railways country lorry services, which deliver their loads actually into the farm yard. It’s not the same van that you saw in the last picture, but the sacks which formed its load have very likely passed through the same railway depot: And if they came fr6m Birmingham they may even have passed through the Lawley Street depot before they were put on the train for Swindon and final delivery here.

For many years the railways depended on horse-drawn road cartage services.