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    A trench railway was a type of railway that represented military adaptation of early 20th-century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers...
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    A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow...
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    minimum-gauge railways was originally developed by estate railways and the French company of Decauville for light railways, trench railways, mining, and...
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    Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's...
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    Argonnenbahn (category Railway lines in Grand Est)
    wartime medical order book. Wounded soldiers were transported on the trench railways, which had been laid by the pioneers, using four-wheeled wagons, which...
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    Russian trench railways. France ordered more than one-thousand trench railway locomotives, and the United Kingdom ordered 495 trench railway locomotives...
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  • French carbines were issued to motorcycle couriers, artillery troops, trench railway personnel, and some balloon units. Some of these rifles acquired Belgian...
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  • management of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., the descendant of companies founded by Charles Kegan Paul, Alexander Chenevix Trench, Nicholas Trübner, and...
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  • 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...
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    u-shape to Butterwick Grange. Such tramways often used WW1 narrow gauge trench railway equipment to allow year around access to soft fenland fields. Butterwick...
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