RE Railway engineers June 1944 - 1946

Hi. I have a few documents from my father's estate.

The first is a long list of the names and home addresses of the members of the 160th Railway Construction Company 1945. The document is 10 sides of type written foolscap paper and lists around about 200 names and addresses including 8 officers and is dated 10th August 1945

The second is two sides of closely typed text titled "Line 90". "The following article appeared in the "Union Jack" on Thurday July 6th 1944"
It comments "One item of this gigantic task has just been completed. It was known to the men who worked on it as Line 90. Here is the story of their work as told by Barty King."

I will link to a partial scan of the first and a 'full' scan of the second. Each document has a foolscap format, but was scanned on an A4 scanner and is missing the bottom few lines. They are also large files. I could do a better job of the scanning, but am not sure whether they are of interest to anyone. I have a couple of other documents as well.

 

Look forward to seeing what you have as it will probably be more than I already have which is minimal

TD

 

Hi. The text at the end of my post has two links which can be clicked on to view the scans. The words "partial scan of the first" is a link to the list, and if you click on the words, you should open up the document I refer to.
The words "full scan of the second" can be clicked on to show the Line 90 article.

Best wishes

QT

 

Hello QRT,

I am discussing "Victory Bridge"

across the Rhine ​

at Spyck in this thread:
The longest Bailey bridge ever built

btw: "…longest Bailey Bridge..." refers to another bridge...

 

Thank you so much for posting this! It was nice to see my father's name there.

Tim

 

Probably already have it , but I recommend Railways to Victory from Middleton Press. Good info especially about 181 Railway Operating Company. Some great work was carried out by RE.

 

I am working on a paper concerning bridge No 84 over the River Niers (see picture) (In Holland near the town of Gennep. 168 Railway Survey Coy 600 Railway Constr Coy and 926 Railway Bridging Coy were involved. I believe there is a book on bridges built in NW Europe during WW2, but I am unable to find it.

 

Royal Engineers

One from 926 and one of 70 field company.

 

Do you mean "Bridging Normandy to Baltic", published by BAOR in 1945?

I have a copy...

 

TD,

Have you tried the Royal Engineers Journal, available via their New Zealand equivalent? See: Royal Engineers - Useful Links Which includes links and an index.

 

Got the title wrong - my book is called "Bridging Normandy to Berlin"!

 

I am also looking for information on 600 Railway Construction Company if anyone can help