British Railway Milk Tank Wagon
![Preserved Express Dairies three-axle Milk Tank Wagon at the Didcot Railway Centre, based on an SR chassis](/Images/godic/202501/27/SR_4409_6_Wheeled_Milk_Wagon_Didcot_Railway_Centre0359.jpg")
![Typical pre-World War I scene of milk churns waiting to be picked up by the milk train, recreated at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the preserved Great Central Railway](/Images/godic/202501/27/Waiting_for_the_milk_train_-_geograph.org.uk_-_932900359.jpg")
![Preserved United Dairies three-axle Milk Tank Wagon at the Bluebell Railway, based on an SR chassis](/Images/godic/202501/27/United_Dairies_milk_tank_HK0359.JPG")
![Preserved detail on a typical pre-World War II United Dairies three-axle Milk Tank Wagon at the National Railway Museum, based on an SR chassis](/Images/godic/202501/27/United_Dairies_Milk_Tank_at_NRM_york0359.jpg")
Milk Tank Wagons were a common sight on Railways in the United Kingdom from the early 1930s to the late 1960s. Introduced to transport raw milk from creameries to food processing units in remote locations, British Railways Milk Trains were the last railway-based system before the mass-introduction of pasteurization and resultant industry use of road transport.