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Things on "platforms"... First- only things that can't be walked off with and/or are low value. Things will be placed clear of the edge... probably 6' for safety both to the things and to people walking on the platform. Things will also be stacked neatly and safely so that they won't fall and break or injure anyone. Fire water barrels aren't so likely unless you are in high fire risk areas. Train crews had strict rules to obey with regard to fire risks around depots. You might have an early fire extinguisher on an office wall Which raises the question... do you have a telegraph office or despatchers office? Stuff on platform will be placed close to where caboose, mail car or combine doors will stop or on trolleys ready to be rolled up close. train stop times are usually short son the staff want to be able to open the doors, pile the stuff on and close the doors. they don't want to be carting stuff along the platform more than essential. this still applies. Watch any platform where luggage or mail is loaded: the staff know where to put things ready. You can add a detail to this... where parcels or similar traffic may get re-directed to different destinations/trains there are often chalk marks or proper signs on wall desiganting where parcels for specified destinations should wait. Some trolleys are dedicated in the same way. TNT Fedex and the rest just carried on doing what the RR had been doing for ages. Have you thought of egg boxes? fish boxes?... both were returned as empties in the days before everything was used once and trashed. A lot of passneger parcels traffic was "smalls" If you ordered a hat from a catalogue it came in a parcel on the train. Hope this helps.
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