Official Handbook of Stations
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Each station or depot was shown against its county, railway region (including its pre-grouping company), and parent station. If the station had a crane then its weight limit was also shown in tons & cwt.
Classes of traffic
In six columns the classes of traffic handled at the station was shown as follows:[1]
Column 1 - G = Goods Traffic
Column 1 - G* = Coal Class, Mineral and Station-to-Station Traffic in Truck Loads.
Column 2 - P = Passenger, Parcels & Miscellaneous Traffic.
Column 2 - P* = Passenger, but not Parcels & Miscellaneous Traffic.
Column 2 - P† = Parcels & Miscellaneous Traffic (i.e. not Passengers).
Column 3 - F = Furniture Vans, Carriages, Motor Cars, Portable Engines and Machines on Wheels.
Column 4 - L = Livestock
Column 5 - H = Horse Boxes and Prize Cattle Vans.
Column 6 - C = Carriages and Motor Cars by Passenger or Parcels Train.
References
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- ↑ Official Handbook of Stations, British Transport Commission, 1956
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