Topic: British Army

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