TRAINING SAPPERS TO CONTROL THE RAILWAYS.—In order to make the Royal Engineers thoroughly efficient in the complicated task of transporting troops, ammunition and essential services to the war areas, this section of the British Army undergoes a rigorous theoretical as well as practical course, in the working of a modern railway system. At the training centre in England, where this picture was taken, the sappers learn to lay tracks and dismantle rolling stock, etc. They also study railway working with the aid of model lay-outs, which indicate all the signals and signs used on the Continental system.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1940, Page 6
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97TRAINING SAPPERS TO CONTROL THE RAILWAYS.—In order to make the Royal Engineers thoroughly efficient in the complicated task of transporting troops, ammunition and essential services to the war areas, this section of the British Army undergoes a rigorous theoretical as well as practical course, in the working of a modern railway system. At the training centre in England, where this picture was taken, the sappers learn to lay tracks and dismantle rolling stock, etc. They also study railway working with the aid of model lay-outs, which indicate all the signals and signs used on the Continental system. Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 April 1940, Page 6
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