"SHADOW" TRAINS
RAILWAY INGENUITY
Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 21. The British railways, in collaboration with the fighting services, have built up a complete "shadow service of freight trains, any of which can be put on a line at short notice. Material from ordnance depots and stores dispersed throughout the country may be required at any of many ports. Probable journeys running into thousands have been classified, routed, -and timed. Each train in the shadow service has a code number. Railway experts know for instance, that ABC-4217 means that a locomotive and forty trucks must be at a certain depot to load up ready to leave at 3 p.m. on a given day and go by a prescribed route, arriving at 6 ajn. next day. The railway authorities point out that as more armies go overseas the demand for "shadow trains will increase.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7
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143"SHADOW" TRAINS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7
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