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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Maps
  9. Introduction
  10. I. Preparation
    1. 1. Forging a relationship: the army, the government and Britain’s transport experts, 1825–1914
    2. 2. A fruitful collaboration: Henry Wilson, the railways and the British Expeditionary Force’s mobilization, 1910–14
  11. II. Expansion
    1. 3. Stepping into their places: Britain’s transport experts and the expanding war, 1914–16
    2. 4. Commitment and constraint I: the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway and the port of Boulogne
    3. 5. Commitment and constraint II: Commander Gerald Holland and the role of inland water transport
    4. 6. The civilians take over? Sir Eric Geddes and the crisis of 1916
  12. III. Armageddon
    1. 7. ‘By similar methods as adopted by the English railway companies’: materials and working practices on the western front, 1916–18
    2. 8. The balancing act: Britain’s transport experts, the global war effort and coalition warfare, 1916–18
    3. 9. The road to victory: transportation in the British Expeditionary Force, 1917–18
    4. 10. Conclusion
  13. Appendix I: Information requested by the secretary of state for war from the transportation mission led by Sir Eric Geddes, August 1916
  14. Appendix II: Instructions issued to General Nash, 10 January 1918
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

Abbreviations

AEF

American Expeditionary Force

ASC

Army Service Corps

BEF

British Expeditionary Force

BLSC

Brotherton Library Special Collections

BSF

British Salonika Force

CID

Committee of Imperial Defence

CIGS

Chief of the imperial general staff

DGMR

Director-general of military railways

DGT

Director-general of transportation

DMO

Director of military operations

DOM

Director of movements

DRT

Director of railway transport

EEF

Egyptian Expeditionary Force

ERSC

Engineer and Railway Staff Corps

FSR

Field Service Regulations

GARC

Greenlands Academic Resource Centre

GHQ

General headquarters

GQG

Grand Quartier Général

IATC

Inter-allied Transportation Council

ICE

Institution of Civil Engineers

IGC

Inspector-general of communications

IWM

Imperial War Museum

IWT

Inland water transport

KUSCA

Keele University Special Collections and Archives

LBSCR

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

LHCMA

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

LNWR

London and North-Western Railway

LSE

London School of Economics

LSWR

London and South-Western Railway

NCL

Nuffield College Library

NLS

National Library of Scotland

PA

Parliamentary Archives

QMG

Quartermaster-general

RAMC

Royal Army Medical Corps

REC

Railway Executive Committee

ROD

Railway Operating Division

SECR

South-Eastern and Chatham Railway

SWC

Supreme War Council

TNA

The National Archives of the United Kingdom

UWMRC

University of Warwick Modern Records Centre

WF

With France

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