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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 3

: Everyoody Ims. heard about the wonderful system of light railways which the British constructed for military transport in Flanders, but only now has information been m.ade available ~abqut the repair trains which travelled backwards and forwards on these lines for the purpose of effecting repairs. There s i s o f those trains each consisting of six vehicles, carrying electric generating: riant and all necessary machinery. The cars were lit and heated by electricity. Owing to the narrowness of the gauge—just under two feet—the sides of the vehicles containing the generators and machines were divided longitudinally and hinged at the bottom and the top so that the lower half niight form a platform and the upper part a canopy when the tram was "in action." "During bad weather tavpafilins were fixed to the canopies and completely screened the •men from wind and rain. Excellent sei;vico was rendered in many parts of tise front by these workshop trains.