List of illustrations

Maps

1 The Chemins de Fer du Nord in 1914.

2 Principal navigable waterways serving the western front.

3 Railways constructed and converted in Egypt and Palestine, 1914–18.

4 The Cherbourg–Taranto railway line, 1917–18.

Figures

2.1 Diagram showing how all (rail) roads lead to Southampton.

4.1 Monthly tonnage record and average daily issue of men’s rations from the port of Boulogne, 1914–18.

5.1 Map of the northern waterways, France and Belgium.

5.2 The development of inland water transport resources on the western front, 1915–18.

5.3 Detail of the railway facilities surrounding Calais and Dunkirk.

6.1 The railway lines near Amiens at the time of the battle of the Somme, 1916.

7.1 Route miles operated and average tonnage conveyed per week by the British Expeditionary Force’s light railways, 1917–18.

7.2 The growth of the light railway system operated by the 5 New Zealand Light Railway Operating Company, 1917.

7.3 Delays to freight traffic on the Midland Railway, average weekly hours, 1907–13.

8.1 Principal railways in north-western Russia, 1917–18.

8.2 Principal ports and routes used by the American Expeditionary Force, 1917–18.

9.1 The British Expeditionary Force’s rail network, April 1918.

9.2 The Somme crossings west of Amiens, March 1918.

9.3 The Somme crossings west of Amiens, August 1918.

Tables

0.1 Resource and development ratios, allies:central powers.

1.1 Number of officers to pass the administrative training course at the London School of Economics, 1907–14.

2.1 Numbers embarked at English and Irish ports between 9 August and 21 September 1914.

3.1 Railway companies’ manufactures of ambulance stretchers, September 1914.

3.2 Members of the railway war manufactures sub-committee, October 1914 and April 1915.

4.1 Wagon turnover for the London district of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 1914–18.

5.1 Approximate tonnages of materials carried by inland water transport on the western front, 1915–18.

6.1 Estimate of probable daily requirements for the British Expeditionary Force, 1917.

7.1 Principal road plant available in France, 1916–17.

7.2 Light railway construction in France and Flanders, 1917–18.

7.3 Projected traffic allocations for the British Expeditionary Force’s Channel ports, November 1916.

8.1 The equipment and personnel required for operation of the overland route to Salonika, February 1917.

9.1 Selected weekly averages on the light railway network for typical months, 1917.