1962: The Last Railway Horses

1962: The Last Railway Horses

“During the last war the railways alone used 15,000, by 1948 there were only 9,000, by 1958 there were fewer than 50, and now there are just three.” Fyfe Robertson meets shire horses Butch and Charlie, two of the three remaining railway horses still working in Britain. Butch and Charlie work as shunting horses at the Newmarket goods station, while another horse works as a draught horse in Stoke. Once those three have retired, it will be the end …