[Railway reconstruction Italy 1943-1946 published by Royal Engineers, 1946]
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Chapter I.
ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION EFFORT
Section I. | Staff and service organisation |
1. M.R.S. Organisation and its relation to the Staff | |
2. Allied Commission | |
3. Italian State Railway | |
4. Allied Railway Board | |
Section II. | Regimental Organisation |
1. Construction Groups | |
2. Mechanical Equipment Units | |
3. Signal Formations | |
4. Railway Operating Units | |
5. Italian Railway Engineer Units | |
6. Engineer Units | |
7. R.A.S.C. Transport Units | |
8. Labour | |
9. Prisoners of War and Surrendered Personnel | |
Section III. | Stores Supply |
1. General | |
2. Phasing stores for initial assault | |
3. Provisioning for further requirements | |
4. Control of stores | |
5. Location of stores depots | |
6. Feeding stores forward from depots to units in the field |
Chapter II.
DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
ACTIVITIES
Chapter III.
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
Section I. | Fortore Bridge |
Section II. | Tiber Bridge-Orte |
Section III. | Appenine Tunnel |
Section IV. | Peraria Bridge |
Section V. | Dogna Viaduct |
Section VI. | River Po Bridge-Ostiglia |
Section VII. | River Po Bridge-Piacenza |
Section VIII. | Mount Cenis Tunnel |
Section IX. | River Po Bridge-Pontelagoscuro |
Chapter IV.
GENERAL TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Section I. | Planning |
1. Intelligence | |
2. Correlation of the results of Intelligence Study with Army
requirements to form a final plan |
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3. Detailing the plan | |
4. Stores planning | |
Section II. | Reconnaissance |
General | |
Air reconnaissance | |
Ground reconnaissance | |
Reconnaissance reports | |
Section III. | Scale of Destruction |
1. General | |
2. Bridges | |
3. Tunnels | |
4. Track | |
5. Station Installations | |
Section IV. | Mines, Booby traps and unexploded bombs |
1. General | |
2. Mines | |
3. Booby traps | |
4. Unfired demolitions charges | |
5. Unexploded bombs | |
6. Unexpended ammunition | |
Section V. | Standards of repair and expedients |
1. General | |
2. Earth fills | |
3. Tunnel | |
4. Deviations | |
5. Track | |
Section VI. | Materials of Construction |
1. Standard W.D. bridge materials | |
2. Bridging materials other than W.D. standard | |
Section VII. | Criticism of Standard equipment |
1. W.D. Standard bridging | |
2. Trestling | |
3. Bridge erection and launching equipment | |
4. Compressors and concrete mixers | |
5. Unit equipment | |
Section VIII. | Unusual methods of Launching or erecting steel bridge spans |
1. General | |
2. Continuous launch | |
3. Low Level continuous launch | |
4. Use of cranes | |
5. Placing spans by direct lift on to bridge from ground level | |
6. Falsework | |
7. Launching of lattice girders | |
8. 40 ft. sectional welded plate girder span | |
Section IX. | Stabilisation of Unsupported Arches |
1. General | |
2. Elimination of the arch | |
3. Use of relieving spans | |
4. Strutting | |
5. Buttressing | |
6. Tie rod systems | |
7. Centering |
Chapter V.
COMMUNICATIONS
Section I. | Railway Telegraph Company Organisation and its relation to Railway Construction |
Section II. | Telephone, Telegraph and Teletype Facilities for purposes other than Train Control |
Section III. | Italian State Railways Telegraph and Telephone Network Prewar |
Section IV. | Damage sustained by Italian Railway Communications during the War |
Section V. | Repairs |
1. Nature of facilities provided | |
2. Standard of repairs adopted | |
3. Action taken to raise the standard of repairs subsequent to the opening of the line | |
4. The constructional work of the Railway Telegraph Companies |
APPENDICES
Appendix I. | Military Railway Service Units Engaged on Railway reconstruction in Italy during period September 1943 - January 1946. |
Appendix II. | Statistical summaries. |
Appendix III. | Plates. |
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[Railway reconstruction Italy 1943-1946 published by Royal Engineers, 1946]