10 Gallon Milk Churns

Milk trains were a common sight on the railways from the Edwardian era right through till the early 1980s when this traffic was finally lost to the roads.

Milk in churns was transported in ventilated vans until the 1920s, when transportation started to switch to dedicated glass-lined tanker wagons. Smaller producers would, however, still send their wares to the local station in churns until the end of steam and the demise of the pick-up goods train. In fact, it was still common to see churns awaiting collection right across the country until the 1970s.

This product is a copy of the ‘standard’ 10-gallon type, introduced in the 1930s, with measurements taken from an example at Staverton Station, Devon.

Please note: Some 4mm scale churns come as a strip of 5, with printed supports. To remove these supports, use a sharp scalpel and file away any ‘burr’ with a suitable modelling file.