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#VE75. Looking at the RE railway contribution to the long road to VE Day. The first problem to delivering railways post D Day was the landing of rolling stock on the beaches. Solution was to fit special ramps to landing craft and install rail on the beaches. ImageImageImageImage
Loading trial by RE troops in a Landing Ship Tank prior to D-Day.
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Beachead logistics dictated rail stores could be no longer than 20ft and up to 1 tonne until D +15. In total 5000ft of bridging, 60 miles of track and 200 turnouts would be brought over the beacheads and Mulberry. The rail was mostly 75lb FB and standard 1 in 8 crossings.
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