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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.
More infomation to be found in the excellent 1948 Civil Engineer in War papers by the Institution of Civil Engineers @iecm @ICE_engineers Image
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#VE75 part 2. Once the Allies had formed a beachead they pushed in land. Damage to the railway was minimal due to achieving complete suprise. At Caen they found heavy damage to the railway from Allied bombing in an effort to disrupt traffic. @Proud_Sappers @RE_Hist_Society ImageImageImage
The RE railway troops were organised under the Way and Works group as Rly Survey Coys, Rly Bridging Coys and Rly Construction Coys. This was augmented with Pioneer Coys and Plant Coys. Some 200 Officers and 7000 men were available for the task. ImageImageImageImage
By D+5 recce had been started on railway stores and engineer parks. Bayeux was selected as the main railway stores depot. 7 miles of track was laid with 53 turnouts with the depot open to traffic by the 12th of August 1944. Image
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