Military Trains and Railways
Military Trains and Railways

Author: Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1476667608

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Featuring 256 drawings, this history of military trains and railways from 1853 through 1953 describes how the railroad transformed the nature of warfare. Transport and logistics are discussed for armored trains, rail-borne artillery and armored combat vehicles, medical evacuation trains and draisines (light auxiliary vehicles such as handcars). The railroad's role in establishing European colonial empires in Asia and Africa is examined. Conflicts covered include the Boer Wars, the American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War, the Franco-Prussian War, the Russo-Turkish War, World War I, the Finnish Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the French Indochina War.

History of the Railways During the War in South Africa, 1899-1902
History of the Railways During the War in South Africa, 1899-1902

Author: Édouard Percy Cranvill Girouard

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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"Detailed history of the use and importance of railways during the war in South Africa (the Boer War), written by Sir Edward Percy Cranvill Girouard, Director of Railways for the British South African Field Force. With chapters on the creation and control of a military railway staff, the Cape Government Railway, the Natal Railway, all facets of the Imperial Military Railways (construction, organisation by region, locomotives, railway telegraph, stores and accounts, etc.), and the use of armored trains."--Amazon

United States Military Railway Service
United States Military Railway Service

Author: Don DeNevi

Publisher: Boston Mills Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A story of true heroism. America's 44,000 soldier-railroaders kept vast numbers of troops and essential supplies moving through war-torn Europe.

World Railways of the Nineteenth Century
World Railways of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Jim Harter

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 0801880890

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With its gallery of over 360 striking and unfamiliar images and extensive historical text World Railways of the Nineteenth Century invites readers to experience an unparalleled glimpse into the world of nineteenth-century railroading.Peter Skinner, Foreword

Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia

Author: Michael W. Charney

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 135008946X

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Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations. Michael W. Charney looks at the role of the railways in the First Burma Campaign to show how some kinds of military technology – as an example of imperial knowledge – faced resistance due to 1930s-era colonial insularity. The delay this caused significantly compromised the early defense of the colony when the Japanese invaded in 1942. Charney examines the efforts made by one engineer in particular to revive the railways and shows how this effort was responsible for the development of a truly imperial technology that was suitable for extra-European contexts and finally won acceptance in India. Incorporating newly accessible primary source material from the files of the military Director of Transportation during the Campaign, this book highlights a hitherto unfilled gap in the archival record and explores an ignored but crucial aspect of the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma.