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Rails to the Front In ‘Rails to the Front’, historians Augustus J. Veenendaal and H. Roger Grant examine the critical impact of railways in a series of conflicts worldwide.

Many thought the Crimean War to be the next conflict of Napoleonic warfare style, but it turned out to be not quite so.O...
11/05/2017

Many thought the Crimean War to be the next conflict of Napoleonic warfare style, but it turned out to be not quite so.
One of the influental new occurences was that of mass troop movements by railroad. Many more elements of more modern warfare in a new, industrial world occured during the Crimean war, yet also a lot still of an older era in warfare. An exemplary image of the 'old' world meeting (or perhaps saying goodbye to?) the 'new' world is this painting of a hussar leaving for the war in a train.

Painting called 'Farewell to the light Brigade' by Robert Collinson, 1870.

Read more about the impact, use and importance of railways in the Crimean war, and many others, in Rails to the Front!

During the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 their was no national railway system yet in Prussia. Despite this, Prussian High ...
11/05/2017

During the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 their was no national railway system yet in Prussia. Despite this, Prussian High Command put all five private railways under military command and were able to transport 280.000 men to the front in five days, gaining an advantage even before the first hostilities commenced: the Austrians could transport their 210.000 troops over only one railway line.

Pictured here is locomotive nr. 302 of the private Mecklenburg Railway Line, build in 1866.

Read more about the use and importance of railways in the Autro-Prussian war, and many others, in Rails to the Front!

The armoured train 'Hurban' repulsed all attacks by the 18th division SS Horst Wessel during the Slovak National Uprisin...
07/03/2017

The armoured train 'Hurban' repulsed all attacks by the 18th division SS Horst Wessel during the Slovak National Uprising in 1944, despite suffering a damaged engine. It was abandoned in a railway tunnel, the crew fighting on as a partisan detachment.

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Polish troops manning a camouflaged armoured train at Berwick, Scotland, 4 February 1941. The truck is mounted with a 6-...
15/02/2017

Polish troops manning a camouflaged armoured train at Berwick, Scotland, 4 February 1941. The truck is mounted with a 6-pounder tank gun, anti-tank rifles and Bren guns.

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“The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car [...] You are rushing into war with one of the most power...
13/02/2017

“The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car [...] You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors.”
~ William Tecumseh Sherman, 1860

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