THE BLUE EXPRESS

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 145, 23 October 1942, Page 3

THE BLUE EXPRESS

Western Desert Railway “The railway, construction group has one of the toughest jobs in Egypt. They are continually bombed and strafed, and have to work in sandstorms, while there is always a short•rm of water. The construction group is & one of the finest in the world, commented a New Zealand soldier who lias returned from the Middle East He pled that the New Zealanders liked working with the Indians, and there threatened to be a big row once when there was a proposal to take their I - dian working colleagues away The train running over the me bu in the Middle East across the desert IT ' tiovindrii to Tobruk, it was elated was known as the Blue Express. When'one of the three German eolS which made the last enemy adof roUhJstoeb was evacuated, and as many damaged ed n o S n “the railway and‘broX back. A -t single locomotive tell mro so that not a sin o e f dr i ve rs the enemy hand». » °r woundand firemen had been Kill I (IMert din operating hairdous work , as railway. It the train made it inipos•m n °often to hear the approach of hSle planes, which macninegintned the engine crews.