OO gauge 4mm 1/76 Eras 3 - 5 1923 - 1966
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Customised Dairy / Creamery Packs
Dairies and creameries have always been a popular subject for railway modellers as they allow the use of interesting rolling stock, notably slat sided milk churn vans and six wheeled milk tank wagons; as well as establishing a rail served lineside industry.
These packs are designed to give you a wide range of signage that might be found around a dairy or creamery. As well as the named signs, the packs include a wealth of general directional and instructional signs to help bring your model to life. The packs include signage suitable for the inter-war years through to the late 1960s.
Customised Dairy - Express Dairy
DAIRY EX4
A5 Pack £5.95
To order a pack: Simply use the Add to Cart Button (next to the pack you want) and then complete the Name Required section with the name that you want for your Dairy or Creamery (max 30 characters) and then click the Add to Cart button.
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Suitable rolling stock & vehicles for milk traffic in various scales can be found from manufacturers such as Dapol, Hornby, Peco, Oxford Diecast and Bachmann. Buildings can come from varied sources from ready-made resin buildings from the likes of Bachmann and Hornby to adapted card kits produced by Metcalfe and Superquick. Adapted plastic kits such as those available from Wills, Ratio and Gaugemaster’s Fordhampton range can form the basis of scratch building projects. Likewise American and European buildings (such as The Walther’s Cornerstone industrial buildings) can form the foundations for the development of a Creamery or Dairy.
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Customised Dairy - Co-operative Dairy
DAIRY Co-op4
A5 Pack £5.95
Customised Dairy - United Dairies
DAIRY UD4
A5 Pack £5.95
Customised Dairy - Independent Dairy
DAIRY Ind4
A5 Pack £5.95
Customised Dairy - Milk Marketing Board
DAIRY MMB4
A5 Pack £5.95
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Originally, milk was transported in churns from stations in special vans or goods wagons. The first churns were the conical type; these were superseded by the cylindrical type with mushroom shaped lid introduced in the 1930s which held ten gallons. Milk companies started to establish creameries for the collection of milk in rural areas, where after processing, it would be transferred into special railway tankers for transportation to dairies in urban areas. Dairies would bottle or further process the milk ready to be delivered to homes and businesses.
The Milk Marketing Board was established in 1933 with the remit to ensure supplies of affordable milk were available throughout the country. The MMB bought all the milk from farmers and sold it on at a standard price to retailers. By the late 1940s, the Marketing Board was collecting milk from approximately 130,000 farmers, using some 500,000 ten-gallon milk churns and delivering to about 10,000 destinations, mainly dairies but also chocolate factories, dried milk factories and other users.
The MMB itself owned facilities for processing liquid milk and for manufacturing milk products such as butter and cheese. These operated under the same framework as independent milk processors so that the MMB didn’t have any financial advantage.
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Detail from the Independent Dairy Pack
Packs come with instructions, suggestions as well as a brief history of dairies and milk traffic by rail
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The models and rolling stock shown on this page are from various manufacturers and are for illustrative purposes only.
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