Britains Railways in the Second World War
Britains Railways in the Second World War The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. The logistics of the mass evacuation of children, and…
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Britains Railways in the Second World War
The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. The logistics of the mass evacuation of children, and transporting thousands of troops during the evacuation of Dunkirk and the preparations for D-Day, for instance, were unprecedented. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a very different one.The railway system no longer consisted of the hundreds of companies of the past, but the 'Big Four' still needed to learn how to work together and forget their differences for the war effort.
The railway system, and the men and women who ran At the same time, they had to cope with the new and constant threat of aerial bombing that military advances brought to the Second World War.
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