In 1882, the company moved its carriage works from Edgware Road to Neasden.

At its height Highbridge Station had five platforms and a carriage works.

Each carriage works closely with two wheels, which means there are eight wheels altogether.

The unit stands about six feet high with a sculptural carriage for the burner wrought in stainless steel and copper.

It became the largest carriage works in Great Britain - and a major employer in the area for many years.

Wolverton became the carriage works, while wagon building was concentrated at Earlestown.

The former carriage and wagon works buildings were still in existence until the early 2000s, when they too were demolished.

It built a carriage works at Bridgwater, which already had a railway engineering industry.

He spent his youth in Illinois, where as a young man, he had established a carriage works in 1917.

Most of the sidings that served the former carriage works at the south end of the station were taken out of use by 1969.