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    MILITARY RAILWAYS

    Oct 27, 2022 2 minutes

    1846-51

    PRUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS

    Powered rail transport is a relatively new concept and soon put to military use. Prussia transports soldiers and materiel by railway to Kraków in 1846. It then transports troops by rail during the First Schleswig War against Denmark.

    1855-56

    01 GRAND CRIMEAN CENTRAL RAILWAY

    The British build a military railway during the Crimean War to supply Allied forces at the

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