“SHADOW” TRAINS
RAILWAY INGENUITY London, Jan. 21. uhe 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 aity of many ports. Probable journeys running into ♦housands 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 a.m. next day. The railway authorities point out that as more armies go overseas the demand for “shadow” trains will increase.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 24 January 1944, Page 1
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