List of armoured trains

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This is a list of armoured trains of different countries.

[edit] Poland

[edit] Before regaining the independence in 1918

Dywizja Syberyjska (Siberian Division) had 3 armoured trains: Warszawa, Kraków and Poznań, and captured a fourth: Poznań II
10 February-10 May1918 improvised armoured train of Związek Broni.

Names of fifty trains have been confirmed, but it is hard to be sure the exact number that remain to be found. Near the end of the war, on December 1, 1920, twenty-six trains formed the part of the armoured train Polish forces:

nr 1 Piłsudczyk
nr 2 Śmiały
nr 3 Lis-Kula
nr 4 Hallerczyk
nr 5 Stefan Batory
nr 6 Generał Iwaszkiewicz
nr 7 Chrobry
nr 8 Wilk
nr 9 Danuta
nr 10 Pionier
nr 11 Poznańczyk
nr 12 Kaniów
nr 13 Zawisza Czarny
nr 14 Zagończyk
nr 15 Paderewski
nr 16 Mściciel
nr 17 Reduta Ordona
nr 18 Huragan
nr 19 Podhalanin
nr 20 Bartosz Głowacki
nr 21 Pierwszy Marszałek
nr 22 Groźny
nr 23 Śmierć
nr 24 Śmigły
nr 25 Stefan Czarniecki
nr 26 Generał Sosnkowski

Other:

Gromobój
Rozwadowczyk
Saper
Smok
Śmiały-szeroki – disbanded on 2 April 1920

Lost in 1920:

Boruciątko
Boruta – 25 July at Kuźnica
Dąbrowski – 5 July at Równe
Generał Dowbór – 6 June at Wczerajsze
Generał Konarzewski – 9 July at Bobrujsk
Generał Listowski – 2 August at Terespol
Generał Sikorski – 26 June Słowieczne
Piłsudczyk szeroki – 19 July at Baranowicze
Pionier-szeroki – 17 June

In mid-1921, twelve trains were disbanded, and others were standardized. The twelve were retained and formed six divisions (dywizjon), which were attached to three regiments (pułks) of train sappers:

nr 1 Piłsudczyk
nr 2 Śmigły
nr 3 Pierwszy Marszałek
nr 4 Groźny
nr 5 Danuta
nr 6 Zagończyk
nr 7 Paderewski
nr 8 Śmierć
nr 9 Poznańczyk
nr 10 Bartosz Głowacki
nr 11 Stefan Czarniecki
nr 12 Generał Sosnkowski

In 1924 those divisions were disbanded, and their equipment deposited in moblilisation reserve stores. For training purposes a training division was created (attached to the 2nd Regiment of Train Sappers in Jabłonno. This division retained two trains:

Danuta
Generał Sosnkowski

In January 1925 this division was renamed 'Armoured Train Training Division'.

[edit] Third Silesian Uprising (1921)

June 1921: 1 dywizjon

nr 1 Korfanty
nr 2 Nowina-Doliwa

2 dywizjon

nr 3 Piorun
nr 4 Naprzód

3 dywizjon

nr 5 Powstaniec
nr 6 Ślązak

4 dywizjon

nr 7 Bajończyk
nr 8 Górnik

5 dywizjon

nr 9 Lubieniec
nr 10 Ludyga

6 dywizjon

nr 12 Pantera
nr 13 Nowak (Nowak II)

7 dywizjon

nr 14 Zygmunt Powstaniec
nr 15 Tadek Ślązak

8 dywizjon

nr 11 Lew
nr 16 Testart (Piast)

Other:

Kabicz – narrow track
Ułan

[edit] September 1939

nr 11 Danuta (commander – kpt. Bolesław Korobowicz)
nr 12 Poznańczyk (commander – kpt. Kazimierz Majewski)
nr 13 Generał Sosnkowski (commander – kpt. Stanisław Młodzianowski)
nr 14 Paderewski (commander – kpt. Jerzy Żelechowski)
nr 15 Śmierć (commander – kpt. Kazimierz Kubaszewski)
nr 51 Pierwszy Marszałek (commander – kpt. Leon Cymborski)
nr 52 Piłsudczyk (commander – kpt. Mikołaj Gonczar)
nr 53 Śmiały (commander – kpt. Mieczysław Malinowski)
nr 54 Groźny (commander – kpt. Jan Rybczyński)
nr 55 Bartosz Głowacki (commander – kpt. Andrzej Podgórski)
Training armoured trains:
- Zagończyk
- Stefan Czarniecki
Improvised armoured trains:
- Two of Coast Defence Command (Dowództo Obrony Wybrzeża):
  - ? (commander – por. Z. Budzyński)
  - Smok Kaszubski (commander – kpt. mar. Jerzy Tadeusz Błeszyński, and after he got wounded, por. F. Hubicki)
- Two of Warsaw Defence Command (Dowództwo Obrony Warszawy):
  - nr 1
  - nr 2

[edit] Polish armoured trains in United Kingdom (1940-1943)

I dywizjon – trains: C, G, E
II dywizjon – trains: A, D, F
III dywizjon – trains: B, M, H
IV dywizjon – trains: Nr 10, 11, 12 renamed in 1941 to K, L, J

[edit] Armoured trains of Railway Defence Service (Służba Ochrony Kolei, SOK) after 1945

nr 1 Szczecin
nr 2 Grom
nr 3 Huragan
nr 4 Błyskawica

Retired from service after 1950.

[edit] Train artillery

On the basis of German armoured train in 1947 a train artillery division DAKOL was formed.

[edit] Surviving units

armoured wagon (likely from nr 11 Poznańczyk) in Poznań
heavy armoured handcar PT16 (Panzertriebwagen 16) in Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie.

[edit] Russia

Zaamurets
Khunkhuz
General Annenkov

[edit] Slovakia

Štefánik
Hurban
Masaryk

[edit] Japan (for use in Manchukuo)

[edit] Armoured vehicles and auxiliary support vehicles

Type K2 Steam Locomotive No.134
Type C56 Steam Locomotive No.31
Type 91 Broad-gauge Railroad Tractor (So-Mo)
Type95 Armoured Railroad Car (So-Ki)
Type 98 Railroad Tractor
Type 100 Railroad Tractor
Type 2598 Railroad Car
Railroad Construction Vehicle

[edit] Railway Heavy Cannon

Type 90 240 mm Railway Cannon (Futtsu Cannon)
Generator Waggon for Type 90 240 mm Railway Cannon

[edit] Armoured trains

Type 94 Armored Train

Waggon-1 Reconnaissance Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
Waggon-2 Canone Waggon Ko (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
Waggon-3 Canone Waggon otsu (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
Waggon-4 Canone Waggon Hei (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
Waggon-5 Command Waggon (Manchuria Railway 60t coal waggon "Tasa" modified)
Locomotive (Manchuria Railway type "Mikado")
Waggon-6 Tender Waggon (as support waggon)
Waggon-7 Power Supply Waggon (Manchuria Railway 60t coal waggon "Tasa" modified)

[edit] Special Armoured Train

Waggon-1 Protective Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
Waggon-2 Heavy Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
Waggon-3 Light Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
Waggon-4 Infantry Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
Waggon-5 Command Waggon (waggon was built two floors)
Locomotive (Manchuria Railway type "Sorii" locomotive modified)
Waggon-6 Auxiliary Tender (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
Waggon-7 Materials Waggon (Manchuria Railway third class bogey "Ha-2" modified)
Waggon-8 Infantry Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
Waggon-9 Light Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
Waggon-10 Howitzer Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
Waggon-11 Protective Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)

[edit] Others types of Japanese Armoured trains

Improvised Armoured Train

In 1920s, the Japanese built some improvised armoured trains converted from normal trains. They were used to guard the railways in Manchuria.

[edit] Iraq

Iraqi Armored Train

During the Anglo-Iraqi War the British reported capturing an Iraqi armored train near Basra in May of 1941.

[edit] Croatia

Croatian Armored Train

Croatian Army possesses one armored train which mounted French Hotchkiss H38 turrets.

[edit] France

[edit] First Indochina War (1946-1954)

La Rafale, two trains blindés ("TB", armoured trains) were used by the 2e Etranger (French Foreign Legion) from 1948 to 1954 in French Indochina (Vietnam and Cambodia).

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] Battle of Malaya

In Malaya in 1942, an armoured train was part of Operation Krohcol, the British advance into Siam to resist the Japanese attack.

[edit] Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

A 15 inch gauge armoured train was operated on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway by the British Army for the purposes of coastal defence during WWII. The RH&DR's locomotive number 5 'Hercules' was fitted with plating and ran with two plated trucks, which patrolled the line for most of WW2

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