THE RAILWAY YARDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 35, 16 May 1916, Page 4

THE RAILWAY YARDS.

With the very large and pver-increas-ing stock business which is carried on at Stratford, it is certainly high time the railway authorities took steps to provide better yarding accommodation and trucking facilities at the Stratford, station. Stock dealers are loud in their'complaints of the inadequate accommodation, and it is a well known tact that stock is being driven through Stratford, over the main road to 81-. tham, and railed at the latter place in preference to being trucked under existing conditions at of course, recognised that the insufficiency of land at the Stratford station presents a problem, but it is at least; the Department's duty to at once] make the yards cattle-proof. That' they are not so was amply proved yesterday when a mob of bulls was yarded in the larger of the pens. To! the consternation of the owners and the people in the neighbourhood it was soon found that these dangerous gentlemen could walk through the fences as they pleased, and two or three of them did so, and caused some excitement. To save the whole mob getting loose they were driven into the smaller yard (at the time full of pigs which by courtesy of the! owners were taken out) and left until tracks were available. Crowded into | such a small space the bulls gored; and lipped each other badly, in some; cases seriously lowering their market j value. Something must be done, speedily to improve this undesirable j state of affairs, for the instance above j referred to is by no means singular.