The Stables in Meldreth Station Goods Yard

Detail of Meldreth Goods Yard showing the stables. (1925 - 35) Note the single stable door and the trees in the background
J Bishop, postcard
View of Meldreth Station Goods Yard 1925 - 35. The stables are in the top left of the photo (see detail photo above). The horse powered turn-table can be seen near the bottom lefthand corner of the photo.
J Bishop postcard
The Stables in 2010
Tim Gane
Kathleen Winter with her mother Mildred in 1938 with 'Tom' one of the horses who worked in the Goods Yard. Kathleen remembers having rides on Tom's back. Note the signal box in the background.
Kathleen Murdon

The substantial brick building standing on Station Road by the turning into the station was originally home to the two horses who worked the goods yard. They did most of the heavy work in the yard, moving the empty and loaded trucks and operating the two turntables.

Kathleen Murden (nee Winter) remembers hearing the horses stamping their feet in the stables eager to get back to work.

To our knowledge there was never a resident shunting engine in the Meldreth goods yard; all the wagon movements were carried out by horses and main line railway engines simply delivered and collected the wagons.

The stable doors have gone now and there is nothing to show this building’s original purpose.

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