ARMOURED TRAINS
Adams, W. Bridges. English Railway Artillery: A Cheap Defence against Invasion. Once a Week, Aug. 13, 1859. London.
Armoured Truck ("Union Railroad Battery," Petersburg) used in the American Civil War, 1861-65. See illustration, Century Magazine, Sept., 1887, p. 774.
Boxall, Charles Gervaise, Col. Commanding 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteers. Armoured Train for Coast Defence in Great Britain, The. Paper read at a meeting of Officers and N.C.O.'s of the Brigade at Newhaven Fort, Sussex, May 14, 1894. 11 pp.
—— Railway Batteries and Armoured Trains. Fortnightly Review, Aug., 1895.
Connor, Maj. W. D. Military Railways. Section on Armoured Trains, pp. 141-50. Professional Papers, No. 32, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. Washington, 1910.
Detailed History of the Railways in the South African War, 1899-1902. Vol. I, Section on Organisation, Equipment and Use of Armoured Trains. Chatham, 1905.
Field Service Regulations. Part I, Operations. 1909. (Reprinted, with amendments, 1914.) Section 40, Defence of Railways. General Staff, War Office, London.
FitzGerald, W. C. The Armoured Train. The Four-track News, March, 1906. New York.
Forbin, V. Les trains blindés. Nature, Dec. 12, 1914. Paris.
Fraser, R.E., Lieut. T. Armour-plated Railway Wagons used during the late Sieges of Paris in 1870-71. Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, N.S., Vol. XX. Woolwich, 1872.
Girouard, R.E., Lieut.-Col. E. P. C. History of the Railways during the War in South Africa, 1899-1902. Section V, The Organisation and Use of Armoured Trains. London, 1903.
Hobart, Frederick. The first Armoured Train. Railway Age Gazette, Jan. 22, 1915. Chicago, U.S.A.
Lodian, L. The Origin of Armoured Railroad Cars unquestionably the Product of the American Civil War. Railroad and Locomotive Engineering, May, 1915. New York.
[Reproduces from Leslie's Weekly for May 18, 1864, an illustration of a "Railroad Battery on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railway," showing a "box" car completely covered with armour plating, with loop-holes at end and side for guns, and placed on the line in front of the locomotive, itself otherwise unprotected.]
Military History of the Campaign of 1882 in Egypt. Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War Office. Revised edition. London, 1908.
[References to use of armoured train.]
Nance, Capt. H. O. Armoured Trains. Lecture delivered at the Royal Engineers' Institute. 52 pp. Photographs and drawings. Professional Papers, fourth series, Vol. I, Paper 4. Chatham, 1906.
[The subject is dealt with in three sections: (1) Uses of Armoured Trains; (2) Construction, equipment and garrison; (3) Organisation and administration.]
Railway Manual (War). Chapter VI, Section 15, Armoured Trains. London, 1911.
Walker, Lieut. Arthur. Coast Railways and Railway Artillery. Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Vol. IX, pp. 221-23. Plates. London, 1866.
INDEX
Abyssinian Campaign:
Construction and working of military railway, [210]-[14].
Adams, William Bridges: [67]-[9].
Advantages from Use of Railways: [345]-[50].
Africa, German Designs on:
Proposals of von Weber, [297];
German South-West Africa, [298]-[300];
the Herero rising, [300]-[1];
railways, [304]-[10];
military preparations, [307], [310]-[12];
rail connection with Angola, [312]-[14];
German East Africa Central Railway, [314]-[7];
Katanga district, [316];
Central Africa, [318];
rival railway schemes, [319]-[20];
railway schemes in the Cameroons, [320]-[5];
official admissions, [325]-[6];
"der Tag" and its programme, [326]-[30].
Agadir Crisis, The: [324].
Aggression, Use of Railways for: [355]-[6].
Alexander the Great: [63].
Alexandretta, Germany and: [334], [343].
Alexeiev, Admiral: [275].
Ambulance Trains: see Railway Ambulance Transport.
American Civil War:
What it established, [13];
railway lines, [15];
Federal Government and railways, [16];
mileage taken over, [18];
gauge of lines, [18];
condition of lines, [19];
Transportation Department, [20]-[1];
locomotives, [21]-[2];
rolling mills, [23];
movement of troops, [23]-[5];
destruction of railways, [27]-[8];
Construction Corps, [29]-[37];
control of railways, [43]-[50];
protection of, [54]-[5];
armoured cars, [72]-[4];
removal of sick and wounded, [86]-[91];
American precedents followed in Europe, [104], [122], [153], [177];
"surface railroads," [210];
the Civil War and the South African campaign, [258] (n.).
Anatolia: [331], [335].
Anatolian Railway, The: [334].
Angola: [299], [312]-[4], [320].
Armoured Trains:
Protection of railway lines, [59];
first suggested, [67]-[9];
proposals of Lieut. A. Walker, [69]-[70];
of Col. Wethered, [70]-[71];
of Lieut. E. P. C. Girouard, [71]-[2];
Civil War, [72]-[4];
Franco-Prussian War, [75];
Egyptian Campaign, [75]-[6], [224];
Delhi, [76];
experiments in France, [77];
at Newhaven, Sussex, [77]-[9];
South African War, [79], [248]-[52].
Asia Minor:
Germany's "share" in the Turkish spoils, [332];
Germany's colonisation field, [332]-[3];
proposed German protectorate, [333].
Aspinall, Mr. J. A. F.: [197].
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad: [36], [73].
Australia and the Baghdad Railway: [342], [344].
Austria-Hungary:
Early troop movements by rail, [8]-[9];
scheme for strategical railways, [9];
Italian campaign of 1859, [11]-[12];
Railway Troops, [123];
German rail communications, [287].
Austro-Prussian Campaign:
Protection of railways, [55], [59];
removal of sick and wounded, [91]-[2];
Prussian mobilisation, [104];
defective transport arrangements, [104]-[5];
destruction and restoration of railway lines, [124]-[6].
Babylonia, Germany and: [332].
Baghdad railway, The:
Concession, [334];
branches, [334]-[5];
Germany's aims, [336];
the conquest of Egypt, [338]-[40];
the Persian Gulf, [341];
India, [342];
Capt. Mahan's views, [342];
the desired extension to Koweit, [343];
what the railway was to accomplish, [344].
Balck: [110].
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: [29].
Basson, Wilhelm: [127].
Becker, Lieut.: [169]-[70].
Belgium:
Early Railways in, [4]-[5];
German strategical lines on Belgian frontier, [288]-[294];
German designs, [323]-[4], [325]-[6], [327], [329].
Bérigny, M. de: [7].
Beyens, Baron: [325].
Bigelow, Capt. J.: [56], [348] (n.).
Billington, Mr. R. J.: [78].
Bismarck, Prince: [136], [338].
Blockhouses for Protection of Railways: [54], [58], [245].
Boulger, Mr. D. C.: [288], [294].
Boxall, Col. C. G.: [78].
British Central Red Cross Committee: [95], [254].
British East Africa: [317], [327].
British South Africa:
German designs on, [301], [302], [303], [308], [312], [327].
Bryden, Mr. H. A.: [300] (n.).
Budde, H.: [51].
Buller, Sir Redvers: [254].
Burgoyne, Sir John: [178], [209].
Butterworth, Sir A. K.: [197].
Caledonian Rly.: [197].
Calthrop, Mr. Guy: [197].
Cameroons, The: [320]-[5].
Campenau, Gen.: [137].
Canals and Troops: [1].
Cape Government Railways: [237], [240], [246], [253].
Cape-to-Cairo Railway: [320].
Central Africa: [318]-[20].
Chéradame, M. André: [338].
Christian, Princess: [254].
Clarke, Sir Andrew: [224].
Coast Defence: [67], [179].
Commerce Defence League, The German: [303] (n.).
Congo, The Belgian: [315]-[320], [322]-[6].
Conditions Essential to Efficiency: [350]-[2].
Connor, Maj. W. D.: [58], [80], [258] (n.).
Construction Corps:
U.S.A., [20], [21], [23], [29]-[37];
Prussia, [122]-[3], [124]-[8], [132]-[6], [215]-[6], [219];
Austria, [123]-[4];
Bavaria, [127]-[133];
France, [128], [152]-[4];
England, [198]-[202];
South African War, [242]-[5];
Russo-Japanese War, [273]-[4].
Construction of Railways:
Military requirements, [350]-[1].
Control of Railways in War:
Conditions of operation, [40]-[3];
American Civil War, [43]-[50];
views of Baron M. M. von Weber, [50]-[2];
need for intermediaries, [52];
organisation in peace, [99];
Austro-Prussian War, [104]-[5];
German system in 1870-[71], [106]-[115];
new regulations, [115]-[7];
present system, [118]-[121];
inefficient military control in France in 1870-71, [139]-[147];
creation of new organisation, [149]-[170];
State control in England, [176]-[7];
draft scheme for State operation, [185]-[7];
Railway Transport Officers, [189]-[191];
South African War, [233]-[7], [238]-[9], [249]-[52];
Russo-Japanese War, [274]-[5];
general, [351].
Cowans, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. S.: [204].
Crimean War:
Deaths from sickness and disease, [81];
removal of sick and wounded by railway, [83];
transport conditions, [207]-[8];
construction of military railway, [208];
operation, [208]-[10];
recalled by Russo-Japanese War, [260].
Cromer, Lord: [229].
Danish War (1864): [91], [104].
Delagoa Bay: [304]-[5], [327].
Delbrück, Prof. Hans: [330].
Dent, Mr. C. H.: [197].
Dent, Mr. F. H.: [197].
Destruction of Railways:
Vulnerability, [26]-[7];
early instances, [27];
American Civil War, [27]-[37];
Mexican War, [37]-[9];
Austro-Prussian War, [124], [125]-[6];
Franco-German War, [128]-[30];
South African War, [241]-[5], [256]-[8];
Russo-Japanese War, [274].
Disadvantages of Railways: [355]-[6].
Dufaure, M.: [7].
Dumant, Jean Henri: [84].
East Prussia, Strategical Railways in: [283].
Egypt:
German anticipations of rebellion, [326];
aims against Egypt, [338]-[9];
conquest to be facilitated by railways, [340].
Egyptian Campaigns:
Armoured cars, [75]-[6];
Railway Companies, Royal Engineers, [199].
Eifel District:
German strategical railways, [289]-[292].
Elsenborn, German Camp at: [288]-[9].
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps:
Formation, [179]-[182];
constitution, [181]-[2];
functions and work done, [182]-[7], [192];
supplemented by War Railway Council, [187].
England, Organisation in:
Early regulation for troop movements, [2];
legislative enactments, [175]-[7];
invasion prospects and formation of Volunteer Corps, [178];
Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, [179]-[187];
attitude of War Office, [180];
War Office and defence scheme, [185]-[7];
War Railway Council, [187]-[9];
Railway Transport Officers, [189]-[191];
Railways Executive Committee, [195]-[7];
Railway Companies, Royal Engineers, [200]-[2].
Ernouf, Baron: [141].
Evans, Dr. T. W.: [91].
Fay, Sir Sam: [197].
Fieldhouse, Mr. W. J.: [95].
Findlay, Sir George: [184]-[7], [195], [196], [202].
Forbes, Sir William: [182], [197].
Formanoir, Captain A. de: [124] (n.).
Fortresses for Protection of Railways: [59].
France:
Early references in French Chamber, [6]-[7];
complaints in 1842 of German aggressive lines, [7];
early railways, [7];
railways and the Italian campaign of 1859, [9]-[11];
early regulations, [138];
Marshal Niel's Commission, [138]-[9];
experiences in Franco-German War, [139]-[148];
German railway lines on French frontiers, [287]-[8];
Germany's alternative routes, via Luxemburg, [288];
via Belgium, [288]-[93];
French possessions in Africa to be seized by Germany, [326];
to be demanded as "ransom," [329].
France, Organisation in:
Early regulations, [138];
action taken after the Franco-German War, [149]-[50];
Superior Military Commission, [150], [151]-[2];
Field Railway Sections, [153]-[4];
Railway Troops, [154]-[6];
existing organisation, [157]-[168];
tests, [169];
views of German authority, [169];
defensive railways, [170]-[4].
Franco-German War: France:
Armoured wagons, [75];
rail-transport regulations, [138];
the Niel Commission, [138]-[9];
despatches by rail, [139]-[40];
absence of military organisation, [140];
confusion and chaos, [140]-[2];
conflicting orders, [142];
local authorities, [143];
unloading, [143]-[4];
congestion at stations, [145]-[7];
seizure of rolling stock by enemy, [147].
Franco-German War: Germany:
Safeguarding of railway lines, [56]-[8];
removal of sick and wounded, [94]-[5];
rail transport conditions, [106]-[115];
Railway Troops, [127]-[8];
destruction of lines, etc., [128]-[30];
operation of French lines by Germans, [130]-[1];
construction of military lines, [215]-[6].
Franc-tireurs and Railways: [57], [129]-[30].
Fraser, R. E., Lieut.: [129].
Fredericksburg Railroad: [29].
French Trans-African Railway Scheme: [322].
Frere, Sir Bartle: [297].
Friron, Gen.: [64].
Furley, Sir John: [95], [96], [254].
Gambon, M.: [325].
Gauge, Railway:
Various countries, [60];
Russian policy in respect to, [61];
experiences in Russo-Turkish War, [61], [217];
Germany and Russian lines, [284]-[6].
German East Africa: [314]-[5], [316]-[7].
German Emperor, The:
African railways, [321];
visit to Constantinople, [334];
to Damascus, [337].
German South-West Africa: [298]-[312].
Germany and Egypt: [338]-[40].
Germany:
Early proposals for strategical railways, [2]-[3];
early railways constructed, [5];
possible attacks on two fronts, [5];
"aggressive" lines, [7];
early troop transports, [8];
control of railways in war, [50]-[52];
railway ambulance transport, [84]-[6], [91]-[3], [94];
see also Germany, Organisation in.
Germany, Organisation in:
Influence of American Civil War, [104], [122];
Railway Section of General Staff formed, [104];
Danish War (1864), [104];
Austro-Prussian War, [104]-[6];
Route Service Regulation, [106]-[9];
Franco-Prussian War, [110]-[15];
further Regulations, [115]-[6];
Field Service Regulations, [117];
present basis of organisation, [118]-[121];
Railway Troops, [122]-[37].
Girouard, Sir E. Percy C.: [71], [225], [228], [233]-[7], [238]-[9], [240]-[1], [248]-[9], [252], [257], [258] (n.).
Goltz, von der: [135], [139], [282], [346] (n.), [352].
Gordon, Gen.: [221], [222].
Graham, Gen. Sir G.: [223], [224] (n.).
Granet, Sir Guy: [197].
Grant, Capt. M. H.: [251].
Grant, Gen.: [22].
Great Central Railway, [197].
Great Eastern Rly.: [194], [204].
Great Northern Rly.: [194], [197], [204].
Great Western Railway: [192], [195] (n.), [197].
Grey, Earl de: [180].
Grund System of Railway Fittings: [94].
Gurlt, Dr. E.: [81], [84], [85].
Gyulia, Count: [12].
Halleck, Gen.: [23]-[4].
Hamley, Gen. Sir E.: [207], [349] (n.).
Harkort, F. W.: [2]-[3].
Harrison, Mr. C. W. F.: [247].
Haupt, Herman:
Pioneer of Construction Corps, U.S.A., [29]-[30];
rebuilding of bridges, [31]-[2];
control questions, [43]-[9];
armoured car, [72].
Hedjaz Railway: [335].
Herbert, Mr. Sidney: [180].
Herff, Herr von: [305].
Heyer, Mr. A. E.: [305].
Hine, Maj. Charles: [37].
Hobart, Mr. F.: [73].
Holland:
German strategical lines on Dutch frontier, [293]-[4].
Home, R.E., Lieut.-Col. R.: [63].
Hood, Gen.: [35].
Hospital Trains; see Railway Ambulance Transport.
India:
German anticipations of rebellion, [326];
the Baghdad railway and India, [342], [344].
Invasion of England:
Fears of, [67], [177]-[8], [182].
Italian Campaign (1859):
Conveyance of troops by rail, [9]-[13];
destruction of railway lines, [27];
removal of sick and wounded by rail, [84].
Jacqmin, M.: [143], [148], [235].
Jagow, Herr von: [325]-[6].
Joesten, Dr. Josef: [281], [283].
Kaerger, Dr. Karl: [332]-[3].
Katanga District (Central Africa): [316]-[20].
Kelton, J. C.: [50].
Kitchener, Lord: [58], [225], [226], [227], [228], [229], [239].
Kuropatkin, Gen.: [263], [269]-[70], [271], [275], [355] (n.).
Lamarque, Gen.: [6].
Lancashire and Yorkshire Rly.: [197].
Land Transport Corps (Crimea): [181] (n.), [208], [209].
Langhams, Paul: [338].
Lanoir, M. Paul: [136]-[7].
Lattmann, Herr: [306].
Ledebour, Herr: [302].
Leopold, King: [318], [325].
Limitations in Usefulness of Railways: [352]-[5].
Liverpool and Manchester Rly.: [1], [8].
Lobito Bay Rly.: [314], [319]-[20].
Lodian, Mr. L.: [73].
London and North Western Rly.: [194], [197].
London and South Western Rly.: [192], [193], [197], [199], [201].
London, Brighton and South Coast Rly.: [77]-[8], [197].
London, Chatham and Dover Rly.: [199].
London, Defence of: [71].
Lorme, M. Dupuy de: [75].
Luard, R. E., Capt. C. E.: [209].
Lüderitz, Adolf: [298].
Luxemburg Railways: [288], [289], [292].
McCallum, D. G.:
Appointed Military Director, etc., U. S. railroads, [17]-[18];
views on situation, [19];
creation of Transportation Department and Construction Corps, [20], [32]-[37];
movement of troops, [23]-[4];
question of control, [50];
German translation of report, [127].
McDowell, Gen.: [30], [54].
McMurdo, Gen. Sir W. M.: [180], [181], [182]-[3].
Mahan, Capt. A. T.: [342], [344].
Manassas Gap Railway: [55].
Manby, F.R.S., Mr. C.: [180].
Mangelsdorf, Prof. R.: [340].
Maquay, R. E., Col. J. P.: [214].
Marschall, M., [7].
Masséna, Marshal: [64].
Matheson, Mr. D. A.: [197].
Meade, Maj.-Gen. G. G.: [54].
Meigs, Gen.: [48].
Mexico, Railway Destruction in: [37]-[9].
Midland Railway: [197].
Military Operation of Railways:
Civil War, [20]-[1];
Franco-German War, [130]-[1];
British organisation, [175];
South African War, [239]-[41];
Russo-Japanese War, [374].
Military Railways:
Description of, [205]-[6];
pioneer military line in Crimean War, [206]-[10];
American Civil War, [210];
Abyssinian Campaign, [210]-[14];
Franco-German War, [215]-[6];
Russo-Turkish War, [216]-[20];
the Sudan, [220]-[231];
Russo-Japanese War, [272]-[3];
general, [349].
Millar, R. A., Maj.: [9].
Moltke, von: [8], [106], [109], [278], [346] (n.).
Morache, Dr.: [81].
Muni (Spanish): [324].
Nance, Capt. H. O.: [80].
Nanton, R. E., Capt. H. C.: [250].
Napier of Magdala, Lord: [210].
Napier, Sir Charles: [178].
Napoleon: [62], [63], [64].
Nashville and Chattanooga Rly.: [33], [34].
Natal Government Railways: [237], [246]-[8], [253].
Natal Railway Pioneer Staff: [247].
Nathan, R. E., Lieut. M.: [223].
National Defence Act, 1888: [177], [195].
Netherlands South African Rly.: [240], [254]-[8].
Niel, Marshal: [138], [139].
Norton, Mr. Roy: [286].
North Eastern Rly.: [197].
North Missouri Railroad: [29].
O'Connor, Mr. J. K.: [310]-[12], [326]-[7].
Orange and Alexandria Railroad: [46], [55], [88].
Osman Pasha: [218].
Panz, Oberst. von: [123].
Peel, Gen.: [176].
Pernot, Capt. A.: [172], [174].
Philadelphia-Baltimore Railroad: [73].
Philadelphia Railroad: [87].
Pomerania, Strategical Railways in: [283].
Pönitz, C. E.: [4]-[6], [280].
Pope, Gen.: [43].
Porter, Maj.-Gen. Whitworth: [209], [224].
Potter, Mr. F.: [197].
Powell, Maj.: [209].
Preparations in Peace:
Need for, [98]-[102], [106], [123], [138], [149], [178]-[180], [184], [351]-[2].
Protection of Railways in War:
American Civil War, [54]-[5];
blockhouses, [54], [58];
placing of civilians on engines or trains, [55], [57]-[8];
Austro-Prussian War, [55]-[6];
Franco-Prussian War, [56]-[8];
South African War, [58];
permanent fortresses, [59];
use of armoured trains, [59];
removal of rolling stock, [59];
destruction of, [60];
different gauge, [60]-[1];
terrorising of civil population, [356].
Prussian Railway Troops:
Formation of Field Railway Section, [122];
operations in Austro-Prussian campaign, [123], [124]-[6];
permanent cadre, [127];
Franco-Prussian War, [127]-[8], [130]-[1];
Railway Battalion, [132]-[4];
Railway Regiment, [134];
Communication Troops, [134];
need for Railway Troops, [135]-[6];
railwaymen as spies, [136]-[7];
construction of military lines, [215]-[6].
Radek, Herr Karl: [339]-[40].
Railway Ambulance Transport:
Deaths from disease and sickness, [81];
importance of prompt removal of sick and wounded, [82]-[3];
Crimean War, [83];
Italian War, [84];
recommendations by Dr. Gurlt, [84]-[5];
first Prussian Commission, [85];
American Civil War, [86]-[91];
Danish War, [91];
Austro-Prussian War, [91]-[2];
second Prussian Commission, [92]-[3];
Paris International Exhibition (1867), [93];
third Prussian Commission, [94];
Franco-Prussian War, [94]-[5];
South African War, [95]-[6], [253]-[4];
methods now in vogue, [96]-[7].
Railway Companies, Royal Engineers:
Formation, [199];
services in Egypt, [199];
duties, [200];
training, [200]-[2];
services in the Sudan, [221]-[9];
South African War, [233], [240], [242], [243], [251].
Railway Pioneer Regiment: [242], [243].
Railways Executive Committee: [195]-[6].
Railway Transport Officers: [189]-[191], [193]-[4].
Railway Wagons, Unloading of:
American Civil War, [46], [47]-[8];
Austro-Prussian War, [105];
Franco-German War, [111]-[2], [144], [145];
South African War, [234], [238], [239].
Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871: [176], [177], [195], [196], [197].
René, Carl: [321]-[2].
Reprisals, Prussia and: [55]-[6].
Rhodesia: [320], [322], [327].
Roberts, Lord: [58], [245].
Robertus, J. K.: [332].
Rohrbach, Dr. Paul: [338]-[9], [340].
Roon, von: [85].
Roscher, Wilhelm: [332].
Ross, Prof. Ludwig: [338].
Rothwell, R. A., Col. J. S.: [184].
Rumigny, Gen.: [3]
Russia:
Early troop movements by rail, [8];
policy in respect to railway gauge, [61], [135]-[6], [217];
military lines built in campaign against Turkey, [216]-[220];
German strategical lines on Russian frontier, [284]-[7].
See also Russo-Japanese War.
Russo-Japanese War:
Distances from theatre of war, [260];
the Trans-Siberian Railway, [261], [262]-[3];
Chinese Eastern Railway, [261], [262];
unreadiness of Russia, [263];
Lake Baikal, [263], [264]-[7];
ice railway across the lake, [266]-[7];
circum-Baikal line, [267];
traffic hindrances, [268];
number of trains, [268];
speed, [268];
Russian reinforcements in driblets, [269];
rail improvements, [270]-[1];
dependence on railway, [271];
results accomplished, [271]-[2];
field railways, [272]-[3];
Railway Troops, [273]-[4];
operation, [274];
control, [274]-[6], [355] (n.).
Russo-Turkish War:
Railway gauge, [61];
construction of military railways, [216]-[20].
Saïd Pasha: [221].
Samassa, Dr. Paul: [301]-[2].
Sarolea, Dr. Charles: [337].
Schäffer, E.: [113] (n.).
Schleswig-Holstein:
German strategical lines, [294].
Schofield, Gen.: [24].
Scott, Maj.-Gen. D. A.: [181].
Sherman, Gen. W. T.: [19], [34]-[6], [54], [65].
Sick and Wounded in War:
Evacuation hospitals, [167];
infirmary stations, [167];
distribution stations, [167];
general, [349]-[50].
See also, Railway Ambulance Transport.
South African War:
Removal of locomotives and rolling stock, [59]-[60];
hospital trains, [95]-[6], [253]-[4];
transport of troops for embarkation, [193];
South African railways, [232]-[3];
creation of Department of Military Railways, [233];
control questions, [233]-[5];
basis of organisation, [235]-[7];
transport conditions, [237]-[8];
how the system worked, [238]-[9];
Imperial Military Railways, [239]-[40];
need for operating staff organised in time of peace, [240]-[1];
destruction and repair of lines, etc., [241]-[5];
Railway Pioneer Regiment, [242];
blockhouses, [245];
military traffic, [245]-[6];
miscellaneous services, [246]-[8];
armoured trains, [248]-[52];
operation of Netherlands South African Railway by Boers, [254]-[9];
the war and rail-power, [258]-[9].
South Carolina Railroad: [36].
South Eastern and Chatham Rly.: [197].
South Eastern Rly.: [199].
Sprenger, Dr. A.: [332].
Stanton, Mr.: [23], [29].
Stavelot-Malmédy Line: [288]-[292].
Steinnetz, Mr. T.: [255]-[8].
Strategical Movements by Rail: [12], [25], [245]-[6], [346].
Strategical Railways:
Early proposals in Germany, [2], [5]-[6], [7];
France, [7];
Austria, [9];
defensive lines in France, [170]-[4];
position in Great Britain, [202];
connecting links, [203];
attitude of Parliament, [203];
Northern Junction line, [203]-[4];
nature of strategical railways, [277]-[80];
ideal conditions, [279]-[81];
position in Germany, [281]-[4];
Pomerania and East Prussia, [283]-[4];
Russian frontier, [284]-[7];
southern Silesia, [287];
French frontier, [287]-[8];
Belgian frontier, [288]-[93];
Dutch frontier, [293]-[4];
Schleswig-Holstein, [294];
German South-West Africa, [304]-[9];
Angola, [312]-[4];
German East Africa, [314]-[5];
Cameroons, [320]-[324];
Baghdad Railway, [334]-[344].
Stuart-Stephens, Maj.: [290] (n.).
Sturgis, Gen.: [44].
Suakin-Berber Line: [199], [223]-[5].
Supplies for Troops:
War of Secession, [15]-[16], [46];
"living on the country," [63], [64], [65];
conditions in pre-railway days, [63]-[4];
discipline, [64];
road transport, [65];
advantages of rail transport, [65]-[6];
defective organisation, Austro-Prussian War, [105];
new system for Germany, [107];
Franco-German War, [110]-[113], [143]-[6];
present French system, [164]-[6];
general, [347]-[8].
Surface Railroads in the American Civil War: [210].
Sudan, The:
Early railway schemes, [221];
Wady Halfa-Sarras line, [221];
extension for expedition of 1884, [221]-[2];
abandonment, [222];
results attained, [223];
Suakin-Berber line, [223]-[5];
Nile Valley line, reconstructed and extended, [225]-[6];
Nubian Desert line, [226]-[7];
extension to Atbara, [228];
Khartoum, [229];
El Obeid, [229];
military results, [228];
services to civilisation, [230]-[1];
Germany and the Sudan, [321]-[2].
Suvóroff: [62].
Szlumper, Mr. G. S.: [197].
Tactical Movements by Rail: [346].
Thiers, M.: [64].
Thornhill, Mr. J. B.: [316].
Thomas, Gen. G. H.: [89].
Tovey, R. E., Lieut.-Col.: [354] (n.).
Town, Dr. F. L.: [90].
Trans-Siberian Rly. See Russo-Japanese War.
Transvaal, Germany and the: [304], [305], [311], [327].
Troop Movements by Rail:
Early, [8];
Italian campaign of 1859, [9]-[12];
Civil War, [23]-[5];
quicker transport, [62];
more complete numbers, [62]-[3];
Danish War of 1864, [104];
Austro-Prussian War, [104];
Franco-Prussian War, [110], [139]-[140];
Volunteer reviews and army manœuvres, [192], [194];
South African War, [193], [245]-[6];
Russo-Japanese War, [269], [271];
general, [345]-[6], [352]-[4].
Turkey, Asiatic: Germany's Land of Promise, [331].
Turkey: Germany's designs against, [331], [336]-[40].
Unger, L. A.: [6].
Vickers, R.E., Capt. C. E.: [274].
Vigo-Rouissillon, M.: [36].
Volunteer Corps in Great Britain: [67], [178]-[9], [182], [191]-[2].
Walker, Lieut. Arthur: [69].
Walker, Sir Herbert A.: [197].
Walter, Maj. J.: [191]-[2].
War Railway Council, The: [187]-[9], [193], [196].
Waters, Col. W. H. H.: [274], [275].
Watson, Col. Sir Charles: [228].
Watson, Mr. P. H.: [72].
Webber, R.E., Capt. C. E.: [55], [125], [126].
Weber, Baron, M. M. von: [50]-[2].
Weber, Ernst von: [297], [330].
Weeks, G. E.: [37]-[8].
Wellington, Duke of: [65], [177].
Weltpolitik: [331], [342], [344], [356].
Wernekke, Regierungsrat: [8].
Western and Atlantic Rly.: [34].
Westphalen, H. L.: [124].
Wethered, Col. E. R.: [70].
Wheeler, Gen.: [34].
Willans, R.E., Lieut.: [211], [213].
Wilson, President: [330].
Wolseley, Lord: [199], [222], [223].
Wright, C.E., Mr. T.: [70].
Zavodovski System of Railway Fittings: [94].
Zimmermann, Emil: [322]-[5].
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