Military railways

The Kingdom of Prussia's VI Corps, some 12,000 men and their guns, horses, ammunition and other material, was transported on two railway lines to Kraków in 1846.

In 1849, an Imperial Russian corps with all of its equipment, was moved by rail from Poland to Göding in Moravia to link up with the Austrian army during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Military railways were used to establish a reliable supply to British Army troops besieging the city of Sevastopol from Balaklava during the severe winter of 1855 in the Crimean War.

[4] A French siege train was shipped from Marseille and Toulon to Genoa, from where it was moved by rail to Lombardy for use against Mantua in late June.

To keep them supplied with fuel, ammunition and provisions the Brazilian ministry of marine ordered an emergency military railway to be built through the almost impenetrable coastal region of the Chaco.

The Trans-Siberian Railway (Транссибирская железнодорожная магистраль - Транссиб), before 1917 was called the Great Siberian Route (Великий Сибирский Путь).

The early phase of World War I was influenced to a large degree by the speed of military mobilization via railways.

The German Schlieffen Plan relied on an extensive network of strategic railways to allow crushing France before Russia could mobilize.

Armoured trains, like this Slovak example , are one form of military use of railways
White Russian troops on a military train during the Russian Civil War , 1919
Italian soldier accompanied by his wife and two sons to the military railways, during World War I .
Finnish military vehicles being transported by train, 2008
A member of the Royal Australian Engineers bolting rails on a section of the railway line constructed in the Suez Canal zone, January 1942. [ 6 ]