Photo: A trainload of cooled butter travelling to the Government Coolstores
A trainload of cooled butter travelling to the Government Coolstores in the early
decades of this century. Railways were an important means of rapidly transporting
butter and many factories were located close to rail lines. In the 1890s many railway
stations built coolstores to store butter.

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