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Melbourne Military Railway : ウィキペディア英語版 | Melbourne Line
The Melbourne Line was a railway line which ran from to . It was used by the British Army and Allied engineers during the Second World War from 1939 until late 1944 to prepare them for the invasion of mainland Europe. Engineers practised the demolition and rebuilding of railways and the running and maintenance of a railway line and its rolling stock. There was also a bridge building school at Kings Newton. ==Location== The section used by the military was between junctions near in Leicestershire and in Derbyshire. Its principal station was , which was actually at the hamlet of Kings Newton. Troops camped mainly at Weston-on-Trent from 1940. A suspension bridge linked the camp with Kings Newton over the Trent.〔Geoff and Celia Swainson, ''Footpaths and Bridleways of Weston-on-Trent'', 1990, at Derbyshire Records Office, Matlock, D3367/4/6.〕
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