Cambridge Station by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2017-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 63

Fig. 63: The L&NWR then LMS Goods Station on the Hills Road/Brooklands Avenue corner, and boldly labelled London Midland & Scottish Railway, in around 1935.

I remember the building in the 1960s when it no longer carried a railway name. I suspect it was no longer in railway ownership but it was still an important warehouse and distribution centre for E. Pordage & Co, a long-established vegetable and fruit wholesalers. Their name is just visible in Fig. 63 and more so in Fig. 64.

This goods shed was a splendid building, now replaced by a large office block. I recall seeing steam-heated banana vans being shunted along the siding behind the building in the 1960s. Cambridge Goods Sheds and Yards were part of the busy entrepôt that this chapter has illustrated.

‘Coal! Coal! Coal! Received from GNR, MR, L&NWR. It pours through March [before Whitemoor] in a never-ending stream. To … London, Norwich, Parkeston, East Anglia in general. Travel from London on the Cambridge line and see how many long trains … you will pass. Some 90% ….are coal and goods trains.’ Great Eastern Railway Magazine. 1913

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