SJ9816 : Tackeroo Railway
taken 6 years ago, 3 km from Huntington, Staffordshire, England
For more information on the First World War camps on Cannock Chase see
John M's article on Geograph Link
and on Staffordshire Past Track Link
A standard gauge military railway was completed in 1915 by the West Cannock Colliery Company to service the large Brocton and Rugeley training camps established on Cannock Chase at the outbreak of the Great War. There were connections to the Rugeley to Stafford line at Milford & Brocton Station and the Walsall to Rugeley line at Hednesford.
Large numbers of British and Commonwealth servicemen trained on the open heathland of Cannock Chase with upwards of 250000 passing through the camps during the war.