Running Liverpool Street in 1935 was a huge logistics task. In the early hours a goods train from Stratford operated into the station with supplies and to remove ash, rubbish etc. Primarily, coal was bought into the station for the locomotive coaling stages which had to be unloaded by hand then later loaded, again by hand, to locomotives requiring additional coal. There were various locomotive coaling facilities at Liverpool Street and the wagons were moved into the place by the station pilot locomotives (small tank engines employed to shunt the terminus area).