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G. R. S. Darroch. Deeds of a Great Railway
Deeds of a Great Railway
Table of Contents
ERRATA
FOREWORD
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. BEING MAINLY HISTORICAL
CHAPTER II. ARMOURED TRAINS
CHAPTER III. MECHANICAL MISCELLANEA
CHAPTER IV. THE GRAZE-FUSE
CHAPTER V. CARE OF THE CARTRIDGE CASE
CHAPTER VI. GUNNERY AND PROJECTILES (Rudimentary Notes and Notions)
CHAPTER VII. THE CREWE TRACTOR
CHAPTER VIII "HULLO! AMERICA"
CHAPTER IX. THE ART OF DROP-FORGING
CHAPTER X. 1914-1918 PASSENGERS AND GOODS
CHAPTER XI. INDISPENSABLE
CHAPTER XII. L'ENVOI
APPENDIX A. THE SYSTEM OF CONTROL APPLIED TO THE ARMOURED TRAINS MANUFACTURED IN CREWE WORKS
APPENDIX B. EXPLANATORY OF THE GAUGE
APPENDIX C. THE THREAD-MILLER, AND THE "BACKING-OFF" LATHE, AS APPLIED TO SHELL-MANUFACTURE
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G. R. S. Darroch
A record of the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway company during the Great War
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Ere they fell away from manhood in the careless idle years."
Thus it was that on that fateful morning of August 5th, 1914, England awoke, awoke to find herself involved in a struggle, the magnitude of which even the most well-informed, the most highly placed in the land, failed utterly, in those early days, to conceive or to grasp; in death-grips with the most formidable and long-since-systematically prepared fighting machine ever organised in the history of the world by master-minds, ruthless and cunning, steeped in the science of war. England awoke, dazed, incredulous, unprepared; in fact, to quote the very words of the Premier, who, when Minister of Munitions, was addressing a meeting at Manchester in the summer of 1915, "We were the worst organised nation in the world for this war."
