Please does anyone have any photographs of the 1920s Flower Trains which carried the Devon Violets? One went from the sidings in Starcross, and there was a daily flower train from Starcross.
Please send them to starcross.history@gmail.com
"Every evening at 6pm the passenger train for London would be loaded up with violet boxes bound for Covent Garden. It would take five porters to load them all, and people would come down to the seafront just to smell their sweet perfume."
Here's a link and a photograph of a "Flower Train" but it's one which carried daffodils.
FLOWER TRAIN TO LONDON
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/history/gallery/night-trains-flowers-scilly-cornwall-6590510
Here's another link all about the Devon Violets, with no photographs of the Violet Train
and another:
