14 COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF MILK-SUPPLY 



North - Western Railway, and running into Euston, 

 Liverpool, or Manchester, are as follows : 



7.40 p.m. 



10.30 

 9.18 a.m. 

 7.10 p.m. 



10.45 a.m. 

 8.0 

 7-26 

 9.32 



Crewe to Euston. 

 Burton to Euston. 

 Bletchley to Euston. 

 Bletchley to Euston. 

 Willesden to Euston. 

 Longcliflfe to Manchester. 

 Stockport to Longsight. 

 Chester to Liverpool. 



The times are slightly modified, and the number of 

 trains is augmented, on Sundays where the ordinary 

 passenger services are insufficient for the requirements 

 of the traffic. In addition to the milk going by the 

 * specials,' a very considerable quantity is carried by the 

 ordinary passenger trains every day of the week. 



At Euston Station there are two commodious plat- 

 forms (with a roadway in between direct from the street) 

 which are specially allocated to the milk traffic, and 

 here as many as 1,500 cans of milk have been received 

 in a single day. 



On the Great Eastern Railway the milk traffic from 

 country stations to London and suburban stations in 

 1904, as compared with 1894, was approximately as 

 under : 



Year. 



1904 ... 

 1894 ... 



Increase 



Number of Cans. 



520,000 

 392,000 



Number of Gallons. 



7,280,000 

 4,700,000 



128,000 



2,580,000 



About 30 per cent, of the traffic is sent to Liverpool 



