Topic: British Army

Army train stuck under bridge in Scottish Highlands

Bridge bashing sequel: Now it’s train on train

It has been just a few weeks since our ‘bridge bashing’ series, but unless this has been an exceptional seven days, there have been a further twenty-five strikes. None of them were like this though....Read more

19-12-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton

UK military movements by rail

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...Read more

03-03-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Railway and armed services renew cooperation to fight coronavirus

News that Network Rail and the British Army had collaborated at the weekend to deliver medical supplies was worthy of another round of applause from a grateful nation. However, the cooperation of railway and armed...Read more

30-03-2020|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Image: courtesy Andrew P.M. Wright / The Swanage Railway

GB Railfreight names locomotive for Armed Forces Day

GB Railfreight has renamed one of its Class 66 locomotives ‘Royal Corps of Signals’, honouring one of the UK’s military regiments to mark Armed Forces Day in the UK. The locomotive, which will fly the flag...Read more

11-07-2017|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Rail carries weight of UK and US military

A unique rail freight service carried British tanks through the Channel Tunnel in an exercise designed to test the UK’s ability to quickly get military hardware into Eastern Europe. The night-time operation saw several armoured...Read more

20-01-2017|Comment|author: Simon Weedy