TY - BOOK ID - 149880048 TI - Wartime on the Railways. PY - 2012 SN - 0752489208 PB - Stroud : The History Press, DB - UniCat KW - Military railroads -- Great Britain. KW - Railroads and state -- Great Britain. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Transportation -- Great Britain. KW - Military railroads KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Railroads and state KW - Transportation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149880048 AB - From the American Civil War onwards, railways have been an important aspect of war. So important were the railways that in the First World War, the state took control of the railways, and then repeated this exercise in the Second World War. Wartime on the Railways describes the part played by Britain's railways during the Second World War, dealing not simply with operational matters or the impact of enemy action on the railways, but also looking at financial arrangements, the part played by railway workshops in producing equipment for the military, the wartime experience of the railways' ER -