Fascinating. This is a great book: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031449/Londons-Railways-Air-Aerofilms-0711031444/plp https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031

Fascinating. This is a great book: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031449/Londons-Railways-Air-Aerofilms-0711031444/plp https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780711031449/Londons-Railways-Ai... It shows major railway stations from above. As the photos were taken long ago in the 50s and 60s they reveal how freight yards took up most of the real estate around stations. For example, Kings X had a yard extending for a large area behind it, which is now the redeveloped area, the "coal yard", etc. By this way, goods inc meat made their deep into the heart of cities. Presumably they then made their way to market via wagons, horse and cart or motorised. Unless the rail yard was in the market like in Smithfield!