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5 days ago · The actual presentation he gave to us however was a general talk which he gives to various non-railway bodies and was rather disappointing. To fit a talk about railways and the Great War into a single presentation is challenging but the material chosen was pitched more at a WI audience than the RCTS and left big chunks out of the railways’ story.
4 days ago · RAILWAYS OF THE GREAT WAR WITH by Hooper, Colette - ISBN 10: 0593074122 - ISBN 13: 9780593074121 - Bantam Press - 1779 - Hardcover
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2 days ago · In 1846, the British Parliament passed the Gauges Act that established 4 ft 8⁄ in (1,435 mm) as the standard gauge for Britain. [4] After the Gauges Act, most of the railway track laid in Great Britain was to standard gauge. However many minor railways, both public and industrial, were built to narrower gauges.
4 days ago · The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Swansea.
1 day ago · Rail transport and infrastructure continues to play an important role in present-day conflicts like the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where sabotage of railways in Belarus and in Russia also influenced the course of the war.
4 days ago · One entrenched machine-gunner was enough to repel a hundred infantrymen, and railways could bring up defenders much faster than the advancing troops could fill the gaps in the front line. It was at this point that Russia's military weaknesses began to make themselves felt.
5 days ago · This essay explains how railroads transformed late-nineteenth century America and shows how their impact was felt differently across class and racial lines. The railroad, a symbol of both progress and peril, spurred rapid and far-reaching changes in late nineteenth century American society.
