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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 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains archive.org link])</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> [httphttps://www.cwgc.org/searchfind-records/find-war-dead/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=-details/633422 /J%20FLATMAN/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission]’s record for J. Flatman </ref> First World War medal card indexes (refer [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/medals.asp The National Archives Documents Online: First World War Medal Index Cards] ) mention Mesopotamian Railways, Iraq Railways and Railways Baghdad as corps, with Mesopotamian Railways being mentioned more frequently, but it is not known by us to what extent these three differ. In addition, there are other railway units mentioned, which may be Mesopotamian based, but which could be in other theatres. Refer separate [[Railway units|list]].
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