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Street, the remainder being distributed amongst some 

 fifty Great Eastern suburban stations in the North, 

 North-East, and East of London viz., Tottenham, 

 Hackney, Bow, West Ham, East Ham, Ilford, etc. 

 Formerly the bulk of the traffic was received at Liver- 

 pool Street; but owing to the great expansion of the 

 suburban districts during the past few years, the milk 

 is now required more in the suburbs than in the City, 

 and goes there direct. During the summer season a 

 considerable quantity of milk is also conveyed to seaside 

 resorts such as Cromer, Yarmouth, Southend-on-Sea, 

 etc., both from Great Eastern stations and over the 

 Great Eastern system from stations in Derbyshire, 

 Staffordshire, and elsewhere. 



The North-Eastern Railway Company carried 29,000 

 cans of milk in 1904, as compared with only 9,000 

 four years previously. This considerable increase in 

 so short a time has encouraged the company to make 

 a special effort with a view both to securing still further 

 expansion and to placing the local milk-supply on a 

 better footing. To this end they erected alongside 

 their lines at Northallerton a commodious and well- 

 arranged depot, to serve as a collecting and distributing 

 centre for a newly-formed body known as the Wensley- 

 dale Pure Milk Society, which leases the depot from 

 the railway company. The society (of which the 

 Deputy General Manager of the North-Eastern Rail- 

 way Company, Mr. Philip Burtt, is an active member) 

 buys milk from Wensleydale farmers, who, in return for 

 a close adherence to certain strict sanitary and other 

 regulations and conditions, are paid a higher price for 

 their milk than they have hitherto received. The milk 

 is taken to the Northallerton depot, where it is tested, 

 filtered, cooled, and run off into bottles. These are 

 then sealed, put into boxes for transit by rail, and 



