Who says our Teutonic friends don't have a sense of humour?
This from DB's October Press & Trade Newsletter...
British Military train 1945-1990 Tribute on 12 May 2012
21 years ago the curtain came down on one of the most difficult and yet smoothly and consistently delivered trains in the history of European railways.
The British Military Train was born in the wreckage of defeated and broken Germany, and spent its life on the front line of the Cold War. It was operated in a unique and highly politicised partnership between British Army railway operators and the two state railways of the divided Germany. There had been nothing like it before, and it is unthinkable that we will ever see the like of it again. It ran without fuss, with a very British understatement of the political minefield surrounding it.
On 12 May 2012 we acknowledge and celebrate the calm professionalism of railway people, civilian and military, British and German, who did the job, day in day out, without triggering a Third World War.
Amen to that!
Further details about the tribute to the British Military Train can be obtained by emailing: militarytrain2012@gmail.com
