List of armoured trains

List of armoured trains

This is a list of armoured trains of different countries.

Poland

Before regaining the independence in 1918

*Dywizja Syberyjska (Siberian Division) had 3 armoured trains: Warszawa, Kraków and Poznań, and captured a fourth: Poznań II
*10 February-10 May1918 improvised armoured train of Związek Broni.

Battle of Lwów (1918)

*Kozak
*Piłsudczyk
*PP 3
*Gromobój
*Pionier

Polish-Soviet War

Names of fifty trains have been confirmed, but it is hard to be sure the exact number that remain to be found. Near the end of the war, on December 1 1920, twenty-six trains formed the part of the armoured train Polish forces:

*nr 1 Piłsudczyk
*nr 2 Śmiały
*nr 3 Lis-Kula
*nr 4 Hallerczyk
*nr 5 Stefan Batory
*nr 6 Generał Iwaszkiewicz
*nr 7 Chrobry
*nr 8 Wilk
*nr 9 Danuta
*nr 10 Pionier
*nr 11 Poznańczyk
*nr 12 Kaniów
*nr 13 Zawisza Czarny
*nr 14 Zagończyk
*nr 15 Paderewski
*nr 16 Mściciel
*nr 17 Reduta Ordona
*nr 18 Huragan
*nr 19 Podhalanin
*nr 20 Bartosz Głowacki
*nr 21 Pierwszy Marszałek
*nr 22 Groźny
*nr 23 Śmierć
*nr 24 Śmigły
*nr 25 Stefan Czarniecki
*nr 26 Generał Sosnkowski

Other:
*Gromobój
*Rozwadowczyk
*Saper
*Smok
*Śmiały-szeroki – disbanded on 2 April 1920

Lost in 1920:
*Boruciątko
*Boruta – 25 July at Kuźnica
*Dąbrowski – 5 July at Równe
*Generał Dowbór – 6 June at Wczerajsze
*Generał Konarzewski – 9 July at Bobrujsk
*Generał Listowski – 2 August at Terespol
*Generał Sikorski – 26 June Słowieczne
*Piłsudczyk szeroki – 19 July at Baranowicze
*Pionier-szeroki – 17 June

In mid-1921, twelve trains were disbanded, and others were standardized. The twelve were retained and formed six divisions (dywizjon), which were attached to three regiments (pułks) of train sappers:
*nr 1 Piłsudczyk
*nr 2 Śmigły
*nr 3 Pierwszy Marszałek
*nr 4 Groźny
*nr 5 Danuta
*nr 6 Zagończyk
*nr 7 Paderewski
*nr 8 Śmierć
*nr 9 Poznańczyk
*nr 10 Bartosz Głowacki
*nr 11 Stefan Czarniecki
*nr 12 Generał Sosnkowski

In 1924 those divisions were disbanded, and their equipment deposited in moblilisation reserve stores. For training purposes a training division was created (attached to the 2nd Regiment of Train Sappers in Jabłonno. This division retained two trains:
*Danuta
*Generał Sosnkowski

In January 1925 this division was renamed 'Armoured Train Training Division'.

Third Silesian Uprising (1921)

June 1921:1 dywizjon
*nr 1 Korfanty
*nr 2 Nowina-Doliwa2 dywizjon
*nr 3 Piorun
*nr 4 Naprzód3 dywizjon
*nr 5 Powstaniec
*nr 6 Ślązak4 dywizjon
*nr 7 Bajończyk
*nr 8 Górnik5 dywizjon
*nr 9 Lubieniec
*nr 10 Ludyga6 dywizjon
*nr 12 Pantera
*nr 13 Nowak (Nowak II)7 dywizjon
*nr 14 Zygmunt Powstaniec
*nr 15 Tadek Ślązak8 dywizjon
*nr 11 Lew
*nr 16 Testart (Piast)Other:
*Kabicz – narrow track
*Ułan

September 1939

*nr 11 Danuta (commander – kpt. Bolesław Korobowicz)
*nr 12 Poznańczyk (commander – kpt. Kazimierz Majewski)
*nr 13 Generał Sosnkowski (commander – kpt. Stanisław Młodzianowski)
*nr 14 Paderewski (commander – kpt. Jerzy Żelechowski)
*nr 15 Śmierć (commander – kpt. Kazimierz Kubaszewski)
*nr 51 Pierwszy Marszałek (commander – kpt. Leon Cymborski)
*nr 52 Piłsudczyk (commander – kpt. Mikołaj Gonczar)
*nr 53 Śmiały (commander – kpt. Mieczysław Malinowski)
*nr 54 Groźny (commander – kpt. Jan Rybczyński)
*nr 55 Bartosz Głowacki (commander – kpt. Andrzej Podgórski)
*Training armoured trains:
**Zagończyk
**Stefan Czarniecki
*Improvised armoured trains:
**Two of Coast Defence Command (Dowództo Obrony Wybrzeża):
***? (commander – por. Z. Budzyński)
***Smok Kaszubski (commander – kpt. mar. Jerzy Tadeusz Błeszyński, and after he got wounded, por. F. Hubicki)
**Two of Warsaw Defence Command (Dowództwo Obrony Warszawy):
***nr 1
***nr 2

Polish armoured trains in United Kingdom (1940-1943)

*I dywizjon – trains: C, G, E
*II dywizjon – trains: A, D, F
*III dywizjon – trains: B, M, H
*IV dywizjon – trains: Nr 10, 11, 12 renamed in 1941 to K, L, J

Armoured trains of Railway Defence Service (Służba Ochrony Kolei, SOK) after 1945

*nr 1 Szczecin
*nr 2 Grom
*nr 3 Huragan
*nr 4 BłyskawicaRetired from service after 1950.

Train artillery

*On the basis of German armoured train in 1947 a train artillery division DAKOL was formed.

Surviving units

*armoured wagon (likely from nr 11 Poznańczyk) in Poznań
*heavy armoured handcar PT16 (Panzertriebwagen 16) in Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie.

Russia

* "Zaamurets"
* "Khunkhuz"
* "General Annenkov"

Slovakia

* "Štefánik"
* "Hurban"
* "Masaryk"

Japan (for use in Manchukuo)

Armoured vehicles and auxiliary support vehicles

*Type K2 Steam Locomotive No.134
*Type C56 Steam Locomotive No.31
*Type 91 Broad-gauge Railroad Tractor (So-Mo)
*Type95 Armoured Railroad Car (So-Ki)
*Type 98 Railroad Tractor
*Type 100 Railroad Tractor
*Type 2598 Railroad Car
*Railroad Construction Vehicle

Railway Heavy Cannon

*Type 90 240 mm Railway Cannon (Futtsu Cannon)
*Generator Waggon for Type 90 240 mm Railway Cannon

Armoured trains

Type 94 Armored Train

*Waggon-1 Reconnaissance Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
*Waggon-2 Canone Waggon Ko (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
*Waggon-3 Canone Waggon otsu (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
*Waggon-4 Canone Waggon Hei (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
*Waggon-5 Command Waggon (Manchuria Railway 60t coal waggon "Tasa" modified)
*Locomotive (Manchuria Railway type "Mikado")
*Waggon-6 Tender Waggon (as support waggon)
*Waggon-7 Power Supply Waggon (Manchuria Railway 60t coal waggon "Tasa" modified)

pecial Armoured Train

*Waggon-1 Protective Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
*Waggon-2 Heavy Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
*Waggon-3 Light Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
*Waggon-4 Infantry Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
*Waggon-5 Command Waggon (waggon was built two floors)
*Locomotive (Manchuria Railway type "Sorii" locomotive modified)
*Waggon-6 Auxiliary Tender (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
*Waggon-7 Materials Waggon (Manchuria Railway third class bogey "Ha-2" modified)
*Waggon-8 Infantry Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
*Waggon-9 Light Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
*Waggon-10 Howitzer Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
*Waggon-11 Protective Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)

Others types of Japanese Armoured trains

*Improvised Armoured Train

In 1920s, the Japanese built some improvised armoured trains converted from normal trains. They were used to guard the railways in Manchuria.

Iraq

*Iraqi Armored Train

During the Anglo-Iraqi War the British reported capturing an Iraqi armored train near Basra in May 1941.

Croatia

*Croatian Armored Train

Croatian Army possesses one armored train which mounted French Hotchkiss H38 turrets.

France

First Indochina War (1946-1954)

*La Rafale, two "trains blindés" ("TB", armoured trains) were used by the 2e Etranger (French Foreign Legion) from 1948 to 1954 in French Indochina (Vietnam and Cambodia).

United Kingdom

Battle of Malaya

In Malaya in 1942, an armoured train was part of Operation Krohcol, the British advance into Siam to resist the Japanese attack.

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

A 15 inch gauge armoured train was operated on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway by the British Army for the purposes of coastal defence during WWII. The RH&DR's locomotive number 5 'Hercules' was fitted with plating and ran with two plated trucks, which patrolled the line for most of WW2


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