2018
SJ9815 : Tackeroo Railway - Approaching the German Cemetery (2)
taken 6 years ago, 3 km from Huntington, Staffordshire, England
Tackeroo Railway - Approaching the German Cemetery (2)
Tackeroo Railway :: SJ9720
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.