UK military movements by rail

Pte L MacNeil of 16 Medical Regiment poses inside the cab of a train in Liverpool St station. Essex- and Suffolk-based troops have taken over railway stations today (Thu 4 Nov) as part of The Royal British Legion’s London Poppy Day. Some 120 troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, based at Colchester and Woodbridge; Wimbish-based 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordinance Disposal and Search); and Wattisham Flying Station travelled to London to both raise money and awareness for the Poppy Appeal. The soldiers collected donations from train passengers at Liverpool Street, Old Street and Farringdon stations respectively to fund the Legion’s work supporting military personnel, veterans and their families from commuters. At Liverpool Street, British Army Band Colchester and the Pipes and Drums of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles set the fundraising to music.

The British Army is on the move. You will not find any overt reference in the working timetable, but you may come across special services, departmental relocations and unusually lengthy one-way workings. The British Army may not be as big a body of troops as it once was, but that doesn’t mean it gets around in the back of a Transit van. When troops move, you’ll still find the olive drab livery of military machinery moving around the British railway network.

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UK military movements by rail

Pte L MacNeil of 16 Medical Regiment poses inside the cab of a train in Liverpool St station. Essex- and Suffolk-based troops have taken over railway stations today (Thu 4 Nov) as part of The Royal British Legion’s London Poppy Day. Some 120 troops from 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, based at Colchester and Woodbridge; Wimbish-based 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordinance Disposal and Search); and Wattisham Flying Station travelled to London to both raise money and awareness for the Poppy Appeal. The soldiers collected donations from train passengers at Liverpool Street, Old Street and Farringdon stations respectively to fund the Legion’s work supporting military personnel, veterans and their families from commuters. At Liverpool Street, British Army Band Colchester and the Pipes and Drums of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles set the fundraising to music.

The British Army is on the move. You will not find any overt reference in the working timetable, but you may come across special services, departmental relocations and unusually lengthy one-way workings. The British Army may not be as big a body of troops as it once was, but that doesn’t mean it gets around in the back of a Transit van. When troops move, you’ll still find the olive drab livery of military machinery moving around the British railway network.

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