War Department Light Railways information

The War Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I. Light railways made an...

line. Trench railways Feldbahn Heeresfeldbahn - German and Austrian military railways War Department Light Railways Longmoor Military Railway - built by...

mainline railway south of the town at Grovebury sidings. The line was built using surplus equipment from the War Department Light Railways. The railway was...

train on railway operations on it. It closed in 1969. Railway troops Russian Railway Troops Strategic railway War Department Light Railways "They're Highballing...

Germany adopted similar feldbahn of the same gauge. British War Department Light Railways and the United States Army Transportation Corps used the French...

March 1925. The line was built using surplus equipment from the War Department Light Railways. Although the line was built principally to carry mineral traffic...

engined 60 cm narrow gauge railway locomotives for the British War Department Light Railways on the Western Front (World War I); substantially the same...

lamps. During World War I, British Westinghouse built some small petrol-electric locomotives for the War Department Light Railways. Similar locomotives...

1919. Great War companies included: War Department Light Railways homepage Westwood, John Norton (1980). Railways at war. London: Ospray. p. 153. ISBN 0850453194...

from Tokar. It used ex-War Department Light Railways rolling stock and Simplex locomotives. It was absorbed by Sudan Railways in 1933 and closed in 1952...

the War Department Light Railways to be used in France during World War I, preserved examples of which can be found on the Froissy Dompierre Light Railway...

Stephens. Stephens bought two new Baldwin locomotives from the War Department Light Railways. When the mines closed, the line lost much of its traffic but...

known for purchasing many former World War I War Department Light Railways locomotives at the end of the war, both narrow and standard gauge, and reselling...

several ultra-low budget light railways. It adopted the track network of the defunct Potteries, Shrewsbury and North Wales Railway that had closed in 1880;...

lightweight narrow gauge 4-6-0T designs for the War Department Light Railways. After the First World War, Hunslet was once more able to attract overseas...

The Abbey Light Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway in Kirkstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Built by enthusiasts, the Railway ran from...

2 km) long Welsh Highland Heritage Railway which runs from Porthmadog along the trackbed of the former Cambrian Railways exchange siding and connects to...

overground narrow gauge railways in the world. It closed on 24 July 1962, the track being lifted in 1965 and sold to the Ffestiniog Railway. In 2012, a section...

British and French also used trench railways, called War Department Light Railways and Decauville railways respectively. However, the German approach was less...

worked at Knostrop Sewage Works but was originally built for the War Department Light Railways. Ruston Hornsby 187105 was used by the Yorkshire water Authority...