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Regularly supported the regular forces during the troubles on the [[North West Frontier Campaigns|North West Frontier]] by manning armoured trains.
Volunteer regiments were formed during the [[First World War]]. [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-on-land/75-other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html The article "Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign] " (refer External links below) gives details of The North-Western Railway Volunteers, who served in East Africa, although the Commonwealth War Graves Commission classifies them as an East African Protectorate unit in its records.
There is also reference to service in Mesopotamia, and perhaps Persia,<ref>[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2000-01/0948180245 Railway Regiments] by Colin Wilton-Davies dated 17 January 2000</ref> but it is not known whether this was by an individual officer, perhaps doing survey type work, or whether other volunteers from the Battalion were also deployed there.
==External links==
*[http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html "Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign"] by Harry Fecitt. Western Front Association.
*First page only of [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03071846809422315?journalCode=rusi19 "Armoured Trains in British India"] by Colonel A. A. Phillips C.I.E., V.D ''Royal United Services Institution. Journal Volume 113, Issue 651, 1968'' pages 254-257. In 1912 the author joined the 1st Battalion of the North-Western Railway Regiment, which then had an armoured train in Lahore. The 2nd Battalion at Karachi also had one. There is mention of the armoured train crew from the Regiment sent to East Africa during the [[First World War]]. They operated until the railway lines were safe from German attacks and then manned a tug on one of the Great Lakes.
**Also see [[Punjab Rifles]] for the 1919 photograph of an armoured train which seems likely to be the same armoured train mentioned above.
