Abstract: A bobbin transportation arrangement, in combination with one or more yarn processing machines, includes a track on which a plurality of bobbin carriers run to transport empty tubes from a store to the machine and wound packages from the machine to another store. The track is elevated in regions remote from the machine, but has inclined sections adjacent each end of the machine connecting with a lower track extending adjacent a side of the machine, whereby bobbin receiving pegs on a bobbin carrier are at the same height as the wound packages on the machine. A control device on the machine determines that packages have been wound on a side of the machine and initiates successive despatch of the required number of bobbin carriers to that machine side, where a transfer device locates the bobbin carriers successively adjacent the yarn processing positions, transfers wound packages from the package winding cradles to the bobbin carriers and replaces them with empty tubes.