The newspaper movement

Hot of the press and read all about it! we go to the moment of the news this week as suggested by ‪@IN_THIS_DAY_AND_AGE‬ its the newspaper train moment to shine as well look at hot a simple newspaper kiosk helped shaped a huge multimillion pound industry and it only took one movement to bring it down

[@IN_THIS_DAY_AND_AGE]

Thanks for this.
In the days of the train, papers were always on time into the wholesale houses. Any publisher that missed the trains departure had the hassle of obtaining road transport, and the additional costs. I was at WHS for the last few months of the trains. Once the papers moved to road transport, the timings went to pot, and now papers arrive any time they like. Late deliveries to the newsagents was the start of the decline of the industry. Now 40 years later it is on it's knees and will soon pass into memory.

[@johnjephcote7636]

As a student in 1969 I worked nights for BR at Euston station. The most hectic time was loading up the bundled newspapers labelled for the different distributors. The heaviest bundles were the Telegraph.

[@rachelcarre9468]

When i was a teenager, i had a job delivering newspapers around 1986/7. i remember one snowy day turning up and there only being about 10 local papers for me as the train hadn’t made it through. i think our ‘national’ papers were printed in Manchester. Great video, one small point Wapping is pronounced ‘Whop-ping’.

[@radiosnail]

Another interesting one. The railway network was one hell of a system in it's day gir distribution. I was watching an old Bennet Brook Railway film about nail trains earlier. Perhaos uou could look into parcels via rail one day. I still think it could have a future role .

[@radiosnail]

Scuse all my typos.