1930's Henry Edwards Road-Rail Tank, built to LMS pattern 1989,operated from Pipegate Creamery. (Courtesy Matthew Pinto, Milk on the Rails, Photo: Glen Woods)
1946 Morris Commercial Milk Lorry 'Henry Edwards & Son' Reg CSU 620 (Courtesy Mike S, Flickr)
1949 Land Registry entry for Henry Edwards, land and buildings at Pipe Gate.
1950's Henry Edwards, became part of Express Dairy (Courtesy Dave Fane)
1953 entry in Sickness Scheme brochure, showing Henry Edwards as part of Express Dairy.
1960's Pipe Gate Station, with creamery and siding on the left. Henry Edwards & Son had a creamery with private siding access at Pipe Gate station. During the 1930's this creamery made use of road-rail tanks which were dispatched to the company's bottling plant near Kensington Olympia, taken over by Express in 1950. Milk trains were worked via the LMS line as far as Market Drayton where they were picked up by the GWR and then ran to London via Wellington. (Courtesy Matthew Pinto, Milk on the Rails)
1960 Driver of the Year winners were Ray Keech (Cricklewood), Jack Hudson (Sheffield) and Arthur Huggins (Henry Edwards) (Express News Christmas)
