Red Rail Exchange
Kilnward’s principal freight interchange for bulk materials and finished goods moving between industry and the wider basin.
Iron-rich dust stains the roofs, clothes, and manifests red enough to give the Exchange its name.
On the load floor
Load bells sound before rail-skiffs move, competing chalk codes accumulate on crates, and porters resolve some disputes by putting the freight back on the scale.
Paper and cargo
A manifest can be checked repeatedly and still acquire a new description by the eastern yards. Clerks care because the wrong description can become the wrong liability.
