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First World War light railways
By: Dave Date: October 13, 2013, 12:49 pm
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Thousands of miles of 60cm gauge lines were built by both sides
of the conflict in order to supply the front lines. This was a
time when the motor lorry was still in its infancy and a lot of
the roads to the front were impassable anyway.
An interesting bit of film about a little-known subject.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3s01i3aa7w&feature=player_embedded
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Re: First World War light railways
By: prof-pat-pending Date: October 13, 2013, 4:23 pm
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kwality find that :thumbs:
something else learned today :rolleye0012:
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Re: First World War light railways
By: Mr.Pickles Date: October 13, 2013, 4:27 pm
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What a find Dave! A fantastic piece of history.
I have long been interested in the First World War, especially
the narrow gauge railways! Narrow Gauge of any type is
interesting to me.
I've never seen a WW1 model railway, at an exibition or in the
magazines, but then I've been off the model railway scene for
nearly 30 years! I have recently been attempting to get a small
layout started and that film has sent my mind racing! I have
some TT track and a couple of locos which need something doing
to them! 12mm track is nearly 2ft in O Gauge, lots of figures
available as well!
I've just read a brilliant book, my wife found it at a car boot
sale for 50p, called "On the Front Line, True World War 1
Stories" It contains "60 first hand accounts of what life was
really like in the first world war." (Quote off the back of the
book! Originally, the book was put togethjer in 1930 by the
editor of Everyman Magazine, it has stories of soldiers and
officers in the trenches, on all fronts and even an escape story
of some English nurses stuck on the wrong side of the line!
I need to do some research now, cheers Mr.P
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Re: First World War light railways
By: mistericeman Date: October 13, 2013, 4:46 pm
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Some nice stuff on here of a narrow gauge flavour ...
HTML http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=92&p=73599
HTML http://ngruk.blogspot.co.uk/
HTML http://polishrail.wordpress.com/category/narrow-gauge-railway/
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Re: First World War light railways
By: puddlejumper Date: October 14, 2013, 3:10 am
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I've never seen a WW1 model railway, at an exibition or in the
magazines, but then I've been off the model railway scene for
nearly 30
There was a layout recently that did the rounds which was based
on First World War railways but can't remember the name of the
top of my head, will have a bit of a google and see what I can
come up with
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Re: First World War light railways
By: Dave Date: October 14, 2013, 7:02 am
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[quote author=Mr.Pickles link=topic=6979.msg77079#msg77079
date=1381699643]
I've just read a brilliant book, my wife found it at a car boot
sale for 50p, called "On the Front Line, True World War 1
Stories" It contains "60 first hand accounts of what life was
really like in the first world war." (Quote off the back of the
book! Originally, the book was put togethjer in 1930 by the
editor of Everyman Magazine, it has stories of soldiers and
officers in the trenches, on all fronts and even an escape story
of some English nurses stuck on the wrong side of the line!
I need to do some research now, cheers Mr.P
[/quote]
If you want reading on the light railways of WW1 I have in my
collection and can reccomend the following titles:
Narrow Gauge at War Plateway Press
Narrow Gauge at War 2 Plateway Press
The Light Track From Arras Plateway Press
Narrow Gauge to No Man's Land Benchmark
Heeresfeldbahnen der Kaiserzeit Verlag Kenning
Heeresfeldbahnen Motor Buch Verlag
The first three are mostly about the British and Canadian stuff,
the fourth one is American, as seen in the youtube vid and the
last two are German (and in German language, so I just look at
the pics and can just about decipher the captions).
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