While hospital trains can also have civilian purposes, since their advent they have mostly been used by armed forces around the world, to treat wounded and ill military personnel.
Their use stretches back almost as far as the introduction of military railways and were first used during the Crimean War (1853-56).
Opened in 1855, the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built by the British to initially supply ammunition and provisions to Allied soldiers fighting the Russians at the Siege of Sevastopol. It eventually stretched
