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The War Department Light Railways were a system of narrow gauge trench railways run by the British War Department in World War I.Light railways made an important contribution to the Allied war effort in the First World War, and were used for the supply of ammunition and stores, the transport of troops and the evacuation of the wounded.
During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
Transfer of ammunition from standard-gauge railway to trench railway during the Battle of Passchendaele.. A trench railway was a type of railway that represented military adaptation of early 20th-century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers supplied during the static trench warfare phase of World War I.
Rail Fan Europe "Rail map of former Soviet Union". Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Shows electrification status and also many Industrial railroads. Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1936), "Russia and Siberia", Railway Wonders of the World, pp. 1004– 1010 "Russian and Chinese Railways (1932 article by Alexander E. Tetzner)". NZETC. 1933.
WW1 US Military Railroads in Europe World War One Trains (YouTube) Technology's War Record: An Interpretation of the Contribution Made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its staff, its former students and its undergraduates to the cause of the United States and the allied powers in the Great War, 1914-1919
The Trans-Caspian Railway (also called the Central Asian Railway, Russian: Среднеазиатская железная дорога) is a railway that follows the path of the Silk Road through much of western Central Asia.
In his 1954 book, The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia, Edward Dennis Sokol used government periodicals and the Krasnyi Arkhiv (The Red Archive) to estimate that approximately 270,000 Central Asians—Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks—perished at the hands of the Russian army or from diseases, famine. In addition to those ...
At that time in its history Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy in personal union with the Russian Empire (see Grand Duchy of Finland) and subject to Russian influence, thus in 1849 Governor General Menshikov ordered the board of transportation (road and waterways) to investigate the construction of a railway connecting Helsinki and Hämeenlinna. [4]