Milk Traffic to Grantham

[workev]

Looking through the 1954/55 CWNS for the GN line I noticed that the 02:00am parcels from KX-Grantham was a News and Parcels service from Monday to Saturday, but became a Milk and Parcels on a Sunday. By 1959 the milk element had reverted to News in the CWNS.

Does anybody know what sort of Milk traffic this was? I cannot think it would be Milk, but perhaps some Dairy Products! That said, the stock used was not special vans.

Any help would be gratefully received

Ian

[jwealleans]

Wild guess, but empty churns which usually travelled via a service which didn't run on Sundays? If they'd disappeared by 1959 that wouldn't be a great surprise.

[workev]

I thought that too, but then wondered why suddenly it became more important than the News?

I also wondered why this would go by a freight service between London and Grantham during the week as needed?

Not having any GN CWNs between 55 and 59 I don't know eye this distinction ceased.

Ian

[manna]

G'Day Gents

Could have been a new traffic flow, ie. milk tanks from United Dairies, at Finchley. (all speculation.)

manna