Talk:British railway milk trains

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Requested move 24 January 2015[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved. Number 5 7 15:17, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

British Railway Milk Train → British railway milk trains – I suggest the name of this article should be changed to lower case as it is a generic article, not about a specific famous train service. Hence British railway milk trains. Thoughts? welsh (talk) 13:08, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support Decapitalisation is obvious, and there were certainly many more than one service, so pluralising is also sensible. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:08, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - obvious. Suggest next editor simply moves and closes please. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:52, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Usage[edit]

In my experience the milk train also referred to a passenger train which transported produced milk to the stations on route and also conveyed passengers in the early morning. It generally being the earliest train of the day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.248.51.198 (talk) 22:53, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly it's common in fiction set in the 1850s to the 1950s to talk of characters catching "the milk train" which means the very first train of the morning (though it rarely goes into detail as to whether this actually is carrying milk and if so if it's collecting for the city or distributing along the way) indicating very early travel. Timrollpickering (Talk) 20:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]