Impression sketch
of a train being loaded at Tilbury docks, on its way to the
front - by Jamie. See original at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2605886/Poignant-archive-pictures-ambulance-trains-transported-soldiers-wounded-First-World-War-hospitals-Britain.html
By special
arrangement,
At a cost of
sixpence a ticket
The public were
granted inspection
Of an ambulance train,
made
By the Eastern
Railway Company.
Made at the
Stratford
Works and on
route to army
Service in France
- The special train
Temporarily at No
1 Platform,
Liverpool Street
Station London.
To last two days
on 6 and
7th August, the
ticket allowed
Viewing to see
inside for full access -
The
specifications at 445 tons,
864 feet long; to
hold 342 wounded.
Specifically, 280
sitting
And 162 lying
down patients,
Along with
accommodation of staff
Of orderlies,
nurses and
Doctors; in usage
of every space.
Seen as
cheerfully decorated
Gangways,
connected corridors,
While
compartments may be isolated
As needed - any
patient on
The mobile
hospital may be separated,
Those suffering infections
Disease had asbestos
barriers
In an independent
part of the train -
With kitchens,
linen stores
Pharmacy and
operating theatres.
All this was on
view to those
Who paid sixpence
- on the first
Day 2000 were
sold, between 7.30 a.m.
To 10 am - a
steady stream
Of public would
flow until 4.15p.m.
Monies raised
from public
Experience, were
to fund comforts
For railway
troops serving in France -
On 7th August the
train
Was then due to leave
for the continent.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915 Railway Ambulance Train -
Public Inspection. The Daily Telegraph, [online]
6 August. P.7.
Col.4. Available at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11776342/Daily-Telegraph-August-6-1915.html
[Accessed: 6 August 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 6 August 2015).
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