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recce83
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Number of posts : 238
Age : 84
Localisation : Peachland British Columbia, Canada
Cap Badge : Black Watch of Canada
Places Served : 4 CIBG Soest and Werl 1957-1965, Camp Borden, Camp Gagetown
Registration date : 2009-06-04

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PostSubject: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime20/6/2009, 19:21

Do any old RASC/RCT types recall the trains (aside from the Berliner) that ran back in the 50s? I remember they were designated Red Train, Blue Train and (I think) Green Train. As I recall they ran between various cities in BAOR (do Berlin, Hamburg and Hannover sound right?) to the Hook of Holland or maybe also Antwerp. I never used them but I remember seeing them on occasion rolling through the Soest Banhof. The thread about the Berlin Train got me thinking about them. Some of our guys used them to go on leave to the UK, but most of us found it quicker to fly BEA from Dusseldorf.
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Number of posts : 238
Age : 84
Localisation : Peachland British Columbia, Canada
Cap Badge : Black Watch of Canada
Places Served : 4 CIBG Soest and Werl 1957-1965, Camp Borden, Camp Gagetown
Registration date : 2009-06-04

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime20/6/2009, 19:43

WEBMASTER PLEASE DELETE WITH MY APOLOGIES. I FOUND THE INFO I WAS LOOKING FOR WHERE I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED FIRST: ON THE WEB PAGE.
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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime21/6/2009, 12:58

recce83 wrote:
WEBMASTER PLEASE DELETE WITH MY APOLOGIES. I FOUND THE INFO I WAS LOOKING FOR WHERE I SHOULD HAVE LOOKED FIRST: ON THE WEB PAGE.

You can edit yourself click on to your post then edit and away you go cheers Steve
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Number of posts : 4
Age : 63
Localisation : Hamburg
Places Served : 23.Base Workshop REME/Wetter/Civilian
Registration date : 2008-10-05

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime25/6/2009, 14:22

Hello,
what does it means "recce", I try to find my father Thomas Curtis and he is on photo and he is holding a plate with this name on it
RECCE PL , can you help me?

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recce83
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recce83


Number of posts : 238
Age : 84
Localisation : Peachland British Columbia, Canada
Cap Badge : Black Watch of Canada
Places Served : 4 CIBG Soest and Werl 1957-1965, Camp Borden, Camp Gagetown
Registration date : 2009-06-04

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime25/6/2009, 16:27

Matt wrote:
Hello,
what does it means "recce", I try to find my father Thomas Curtis and he is on photo and he is holding a plate with this name on it
RECCE PL , can you help me?

Regards Matt

Reconnaisance; in this case Reconnaisance Platoon. A platoon consisting of several patrols in an infantry battalion employed under BHQ to perform long range patrols. It was a very interesting and satisfying job that allowed (in fact required) considerable freedom to use initiative and to be creative as opposed to, say, the usual structured life in a rifle coy.
I use it as my user name along with my old call sign: 83. Looks like your dad was a Recce Platoon man.
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Number of posts : 383
Age : 74
Localisation : gateshead
Cap Badge : 15/19H.ARMY AIR CORPS
Places Served : tidworth, fallingbostle, detmold, hongkong, minden
Registration date : 2009-05-22

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime26/6/2009, 21:59

i never had the pleasure of traveling on a military train,but i have been sick on a few LSL,s.
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jerry
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Number of posts : 186
Age : 83
Localisation : Abergele
Cap Badge : RASC/RCT
Places Served : Dortmund/Hameln/ Malaya FARELF Marchwood Aldershot Yeovil
Registration date : 2008-10-04

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime26/6/2009, 23:32

Hi Dandc
Which LSLs
I did a swan out to The West Indies on the Tristram 1969
Never sick once, I used to put some greasy bacon in my nostril,
and made a few others on board sick though!
I also remember the Trains, went over on my first posting on the Fowey
and took the train.Can't remember the colour though.
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Number of posts : 383
Age : 74
Localisation : gateshead
Cap Badge : 15/19H.ARMY AIR CORPS
Places Served : tidworth, fallingbostle, detmold, hongkong, minden
Registration date : 2009-05-22

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime27/6/2009, 11:18

hi jerry,ihad the displeasure of sailing on the old sir lancelot from liverpool to belfast,1972 sick as a dog all night,sailed on the sir tristram from harwich to denmark,now that was a good crossing,i even turned up for meals,the chineese crew made a briliant pineapple flavoured rice pudding. and lastly on sir belvedere from harwich to hamberg,another bad one.
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shelagh
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Number of posts : 5
Age : 89
Localisation : Husband
Cap Badge : Coldstream Guards/Signals
Places Served : Windsor.London/Pirbright/Caterham/Lincoln/Newark/Lippstadt/Berlin/catterick
Registration date : 2008-07-01

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PostSubject: Military Trains.   Military Trains Icon_minitime29/6/2009, 15:26

Our journey to a posting in Germany begain at LIverpool St Station in 1958 where we travelled to Harwich then sailed on the Military Boat to Hook of Holland where we boarded the Green Train to Lippstadt.It was one of three trains.The Blue went north up to Hanover and beyond and the Red to Berlin. As we were a army family we had first class seats and lovely food on board. I heard when we arrived that the soliders where not so lucky. We use to have to travel by train home on leave untill about 1962 when we could travel by plane from Gutisloh. We were in Germany for six of the best years of my life. My parents came out to visit us and they two came out on the Military train.I dont think it cost us anything to bring them out.
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donald
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Number of posts : 156
Age : 94
Cap Badge : 1st The Royal Dragoons - The Blues and Royals (RHG/D)
Places Served : UK,BOAR,Egypt
Registration date : 2008-04-04

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime29/6/2009, 16:07

How I remember those luxurious trains that took us from BAOR to Ostend and then to UK.Travel first class that was,my first was spoilt by me being earmarked at Ostend for guard duties on the boat,chained rapist and killers,down in the hold of the ship,boy,was I glad to see the light of day again and Breaklfast in Harwich!
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Pborn4
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Number of posts : 653
Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
Cap Badge : Not even a reservist now - have been Pborn3
Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16

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PostSubject: Re: Military Trains   Military Trains Icon_minitime30/10/2018, 17:42

The Military Trains out of Berlin:

Berlin the Military Trains - British French and American:

Found this site whilst researching other BAOR stories:

https://umgebung.wordpress.com/category/berlin-pre-1989/

the author/compiler is: Andrew Laird at https://umgebung.wordpress.com/about/
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