TANKS BY TRAIN

Mk IV Female tanks, covered and on railcars, with their sponsons pushed inwards.

Getting the first tanks from factory to front line was a problem that could only be resolved through the use of the railway system, although, as Rob Langham

explains, it was a solution that was not without its own inherent problems.

Moving Tanks by Rail: 1916 – 1918

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