Heavy traffic was carried from the agricultural and fishing areas in the southwest of England, often in fast "perishables" trains,[75] for instance more than 3,500 cattle were sent from Grampound Road in the 12 months to June 1869,[76] and in 1876 nearly than 17,000 tons of fish was carried from west Cornwall to London.[77] The perishables trains running in the nineteenth century used wagons built to the same standards as passenger coaches, with vacuum brakes and large wheels to allow fast running. Ordinary goods trains on the GWR, as on all other British railways at the time, had wheels close together (around 9 feet (2.7 m) apart), smaller wheels and only hand brakes.