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[[File:Station Truck 3.jpg|thumb|400px|right |Example of a Station Truck label]]
A '''Station Truck''', sometimes referred to as a Pick-Up Wagon, was a goods wagon normally attached to a slow goods train or on occasions to a local stopping train. Its purpose was to cater for small consignments that were individually insufficient to form a full wagon load. ==Station Trucks on the SVR==The April 1935 issue of the Great Western Railway magazine carried an article on Station Trucks, using the [[Severn Valley Railway]] as an example. The following text and accompanying pictures are copied from the magazine.
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===Station Trucks in use in October 1893===
Some 603 daily workings of station trucks took place, including the following station trucks which served or travelled via the Severn Valley and Tenbury branches<ref name=Atkins2B>GWR Goods Services Part 2B, Tony Atkins, Wild Swan publications, ISBN 978-1-905184-69-9, pp. 330-341.</ref>:
{| class="wikitable"
! <b>No</b> !! <b>From</b> !! <b>Dep</b> !! <b>For</b>
|-
|1 || Paddington|| 9.50pm || Ironbridge (via Berrington)
|-
|35 || Paddington|| 11.55pm || Tenbury
|-
|36 || Paddington|| 11.55pm || Bridgnorth
|-
|478 || Shrewsbury || 1.50pm || Wolverhampton (via SVR)
|-
| 483 || Ironbridge || 4.30pm || Hockley
|-
| 483 || Ironbridge || 4.30pm || Paddington
|-
| 487 || Woofferton || 3.30pm || Wolverhampton
|-
| 488 || Tenbury || 6.35pm || Worcester
|-
| 489 || Tenbury || 6.35pm || Hockley
|-
| 544 || Hockley || 5.30am || Tenbury
|-
| 545 || Hockley || 5.30am || Birkenhead (via SVR)
|-
| 581 || Worcester || 8.00am || Shrewsbury
|-
| 585 || Worcester || 10.28am || Bridgnorth
|-
| 597 || Hartlebury || 3.20pm || Manchester (via SVR)<ref group="note">Truck no 526 made the 10.48pm return working to Worcester; the timetable did not state whether this was via the SVR.</ref>
|}
===Station Trucks in use in June 1923===
In 1923 the numbering sequence, which was formerly organised by geographical regions starting from Paddington, became alphabetical, with some 768 trucks now in operation. The following station trucks served or travelled via the Severn Valley and Tenbury branches in June 1923<ref name=Atkins2B/>:
{| class="wikitable"
! <b>No</b> !! <b>From</b> !! <b>Dep</b> !! <b>For</b>
|-
|92 || Bridgnorth|| 1.50pm ex Hartlebury || Shrewsbury
|-
| 111 ||Bristol ||10.50pm || Bridgnorth
|-
| 345 ||Hockley ||3.15am ex Moor St || Tenbury Wells
|-
| 356 ||Ironbridge ||10.15am ex Salop || Hockley
|-
| 357 ||Ironbridge ||8.15am ex Salop || Paddington
|-
| 358 ||Ironbridge ||8.15am ex Salop || Small Heath empties (Mon/Wed)
|-
| 359 ||Ironbridge ||8.15am ex Salop || Worcester
|-
| 362 ||Kidderminster ||7.03am || Shrewsbury
|-
|508 ||Paddington ||12.08am || Bridgnorth
|-
|584 ||Paddington ||12.08am || Tenbury Wells
|-
| 711 ||Shrewsbury ||8.15am || Kidderminster
|-
|757 || Tenbury Wells ||5.45pm ||Hockley
|-
|758 || Tenbury Wells ||5.45pm ||Wolverhampton
|-
|759 || Tenbury Wells ||5.45pm ||Worcester
|-
| 840 || Worcester ||5.50am || Shrewsbury
|}
==See also==
*[[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership]]*[[Country Lorry Service and Cartage Service]] ==Notes==<references group="note"/>
==References==
[[Category:The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership]]
[[Category:Featured articles]]
