The Suakin-Berber railway on the Red Sea coastal region in Sudan was a short-lived military project that never reached completion. Its construction began...
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supervise and protect the construction of the Suakin-Berber Railway. A week after its arrival in Suakin, the expedition fought in two actions: the Battle...
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Desert to the Red Sea at Suakin and flagged in importance after the 1906 completion of a spur of the Sudan Military Railway to Suakin from a junction closer...
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Battle of Tofrek (section Suakin Field Force)
British government to revive plans to build a railway between the port of Suakin on the Red Sea and Berber on the River Nile some 300 miles north of Khartoum...
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were active in the area, and to supervise the construction of the Suakin-Berber Railway. The field force engaged in two actions: at Hashin on 20 March and...
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locomotives added, mainly of the 0-4-2T configuration built for the abortive Suakin-Berber campaign. In 1896, internal combustion locomotives were introduced....
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Berber, Zeki Osman, to abandon the town on 24 August, and it was occupied by the Egyptians on 5 September. The overland route from Berber to Suakin was...
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Barnsley Railway completed in 1885 The Suakin-Berber Railway completed in 1885 The Tilbury Docks completed in 1886 The Blackfriars Railway Bridge completed...
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service in 1882 he was selected to project the Suakin-Berber Railway (1884); served as Director of Railways in Egypt in 1884; and was an A.A.G. with the...
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Longmoor Camp (section Woolmer Light Railway)
some of the materials used having been salvaged from the Suakin to Berber military railway, built during the 1880s Sudan Campaign. After works to convert...
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