Trench railway
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trench-railway-302-2212386
title:
Trench railway
text:
A trench railway was a type of railway that represented military adaptation of early 20th-century railway technology to the problem of keeping soldiers supplied during the static trench warfare phase of World War I. The large concentrations of soldiers and artillery at the front lines required delivery of enormous quantities of food, ammunition and fortification construction materials where transport facilities had been destroyed. Reconstruction of conventional roads and railways was too slow, a
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description:
Special type of military narrow gauge railway
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_railway
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date modified:
2024-02-13T23:15:37Z
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