Extract from Notes on Military Railway Engineering -
Part IV Operating published under the Authority of the
Quartermaster-General, which describes the design, working and maintenance of
Ambulance trains. This document was first issued after the First World War and
was still current after the outbreak of the Second World War twenty years
later. The Great Western Railway built four Home and ten Continental Ambulance
Trains during the First World War, the details of which are listed below:
Train |
Sent to |
Into Service |
Coaches |
Comments |
No 4 |
Home |
24th August 1914 |
9 |
Twelve Ambulance Trains were provided by
British Railway companies at outbreak of war
|
No 5 |
Home |
25th August 1914 |
9 |
No 16 |
Home / France |
24th April 1915 |
7 |
Paid for by UK Flour Millers Association |
|
|
May 1915 |
8 |
|
|
Home |
April 1915 |
11 |
Train Number not known |
No 18 |
France / Italy |
27th September 1915 |
16 |
|
No 19 |
France |
8th February 1916 |
16 (+4) |
Four coaches replaced when SS Africa sank |
No 20 |
|
Home |
11 |
|
No 26 |
Italy |
14th May 1916 |
16 |
|
No 27 |
France |
24th June 1916 |
16 |
|
No 33 |
France |
28th August 1917 |
16 |
|
No 39 |
France / Italy |
28th January 1918 |
16 |
'Two Ambulance Trains built for USA
Army' |
No 43 |
Italy |
3rd June 1918 |
16 |
US 54 |
France |
1918 |
16 |
'Two Ambulance Trains built for USA
Army' |
US 55 |
France |
1918 |
16 |