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Trains were sent from India, including fourteen military trains in 1916.In 1918 the entire (locos, rolling stock, track, and all fixtures and fittings) Powayn Steam Tramway, in Bengal was sent for use on the Bushire Light Railway in Persia <ref>[http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military+Trains. Indian / South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] by Simon Darvill. IRFCA</ref>
The Iraq Railways and the Indian Railway Department were a Unit and Regiment of the Indian Army in Mesopotamia during World War 1 according to a soldier’s record on the CWGC<ref> [http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=633422 Commonwealth War Graves Commission]’s record for J. Flatman </ref> However the Iraq Railways is not listed in the National Archives’s “Abbreviations” First World War medal card indexes (refer Online Records below) mention Mesopotamian Railways, Iraq Railways and Railways Baghdad as corps, with Mesopotamian Railways being mentioned more frequently but it seems likely that this is another name for Mesopotamia Railways (which is listed) Indian Army not known to what extent these three differ. In addition, there are other railway units listed in “Abbreviations” mentioned, which are Railways relatedmay be Mesopotamian based, and most likely connected with the Railways but which could be in Mesopotamia*Bombay & Central Indian Railway Battalion Indian Defence Force B & C.I. RY BN. I.D.F*Mesopotamian Railways MESO. R.; MESO. RYS.; MESPOT. RLYS.*North West Railway Maxim Gun Company N.W. RLY. M.G. COYother war zones.*Railway Construction Company RLY. C.C.*Refer separate [[Railway Defence Force RLY. D.F.*Railway Regiment RLY. REGT.*Railway Battalion Sappers & Miners RY. BN. S & M.units|list]]
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*British Library APAC Catalogue reference , Official Publications [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorv_11-5&cid=1-1-49-41#1-1-49-41 A history of Mesopotamian railways during the War]. Bombay, 1921 '''IOR/V/27/720/40''' 1921. Also available through the Integrated Catalogue.
*The National Archives catalogue reference [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=13155&GPE=False&DOWN=TRUE&MARKER=3000*-2251848&MARKERSCN= War Diary of 2 Indian Railway Construction Battalion] '''WO 95/5246'''. (Probably, but not definitely, a unit in Mesopotamia). A War Diary was a daily record of events kept by units in active service
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