To solve this, the State Service of the Devastated Territories (Flemish: Dienst der Verwoeste Gewesten, DVG) set up the Transport Office of the Devastated Territories in West Flanders, called Exploitation des Transports des Régions Dévastées, ETRD in French.

[4] In the autumn of 1919, the Transport Office took over the light railway network built by English and Belgian forces from the War Ministry.

[3] It provided Decauville material to brickmakers from January 1920 onwards when they contacted the Transport Board (ETRD) at Spanjestraat 56 in Roeselaere in this regard.

Despite these efforts, the destroyed infrastructure and the huge volume of transport led to challenges, including the need to deliver six billion bricks between 1 January 1920 and 30 June 1922.

May 1922, the Transport Service requested the construction company Batteauw, Van Overmeire & Devos of Oudenaarde to lay the Decauville railway, which it leased, on a new route, as the British Military Cemetery Service wanted to make the Bedford House military cemetery permanent, and the railway line was an obstacle.