Britain's Railways in the Second World War

Britain's railways proved pivotal as they unified the Big Four for war efforts, carrying troops, evacuations, and essential logistics under relentless aerial threat.

The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of the twentieth century, the task was to prove a very different one.

The railway...