Rail sabotage

Rail sabotage (colloquially known as wrecking) is the act of disrupting a rail transport network.

This includes both acts designed only to hinder or delay as well as acts designed to actually destroy a train.

Railway sabotage requires considerable effort, due to the design and heavy weight of railways.

In 2022, setting fire to rail relay cabinets that control track operations[1] was a common method of sabotage during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This rail-transport related article is a stub.

A film from Camp Claiborne from March 8, 9 and 10 1944 of derailment tests done on the Claiborne-Polk Military Railroad . The tests were done to better train allied personnel in acts of rail sabotage during World War 2 .
Simple Sabotage Field Manual published by OSS during World War 2 describes tactics for rail sabotage