Interesting talk.
But the…And basically what happened after that, a whole series of events were set in motion.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand went to Sarajevo with his wife and he was assassinated there by a young Bosnian Serb nationalist called Gavrilo Princip who…In fact there were two assassination attempts. This was at Wolverton Works where 213 men from there died in WW1. So the…and then up in the top hand corner, they showed how partly through the railways, Germans were able to extend their territorial empire, if you like, in Europe itself .
So…all the big rail companies were printing their timetables as normal throughout 1914. And in fact if you read the Railway Review you can see cartoons and poems which actually are rather poking fun at people who are being very bellicose and calling for and [are] busy sending troops off to the front. Perhaps the Germans guessed this would happen but they could not have anticipated the extent to which Belgian railway workers would sabotage their own railway network to thwart and delay the German advance. Each area of the front would have its own light rail to bring up materiel. Her large standing conscript army stood at 1.2 million including reservists, and mobilising troops could be fed into an excellent train network which gathered units together at prearranged points of assembly to proceed to the front. The line was nowhere near completion in 1914, as I said it was never completed, but German economic investment in the Ottoman Empire and overt British hostility towards what the Germans were doing over there helped to cement German-Turkish relations which had consequences for the British later on when you see events such as Gallipoli. FA MacKenzie who wrote in British Railways and the War which was published in 1917, and therefore should be seen as partly in terms of propaganda, wrote: ‘British railways have played a great and splendid part in the war.
Awaiting restoration.[6]. Without trains, the modern armies of World War 1 were not able to move their troops en masse. This was following on from an article in the previous issue on the ambulance trains of the Great Western Railway which I showed earlier on. The only safe advice is to meet the duties which the eternal now brings us. A very special train was built at Wolverton and was equipped with a generator, telephones and a locomotive boiler for heating and hot water. Now in France, the French were well aware of the threat posed by Germany and noticing German preparations leading up to 1914, concluded – rightly as it turned out – that a German attack on France would be preceded by an attack on neutral Belgium.
Your email address will not be published. These companies all operated the railway line and gained revenue from fares charged for passengers and goods travelling over the lines of more than one company. But 20 beds for the number of wounded who were coming back…wouldn’t have filled many trains but the orders to the companies were laying on these trains and the facilities certainly in the years after the war were fairly good. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
The troop train is an enduring image of the Great War. So the emphasis, the German emphasis, before 1914 was on building a railway network to meet the demands of the Schlieffen Plan which anticipated an attack on France in the west, defeating the French fairly quickly before re-mobilising and sending the forces eastwards to confront the Russians. They also brought troops, rations, water, coal, timber, wire and other supplies up close to the front lines, often returning with wounded men.
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