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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>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>
|}
==See also==
[[The Severn Valley Railway under GWR/BR ownership]]
==Notes==
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==References==
