01-29-2013, 09:39 PM
From the two stations that I'm most familiar with (Perth and Brampton) the "freight house" near the station -- usually part of it or sharing a roof -- was for express shipments from passenger trains. Goods would be unloaded from baggage cars onto express carts (set so that when on the platform their floors matched the baggage cars) and then stored in the express rooms or loaded into trucks to go on.
I don't remember anything being unloaded from freight trains at the station. Perth had a reasonably sized freight yard with more buildings and various ramps and team tracks and tracks into a couple of the town's larger factories. The yard came off a passing siding that started beyond the passenger platform.
There was also a track that looped off and ran on the other side of the station than the main line -- actually beyond the parking lot. I never saw it used.
I don't remember anything being unloaded from freight trains at the station. Perth had a reasonably sized freight yard with more buildings and various ramps and team tracks and tracks into a couple of the town's larger factories. The yard came off a passing siding that started beyond the passenger platform.
There was also a track that looped off and ran on the other side of the station than the main line -- actually beyond the parking lot. I never saw it used.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.