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Discuss Rail Moves to Warcop at the RAC forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; I was asked recently about the railhead at Warcop. As a Cadet in the late ...
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28-01-2012, 15:11 #1Senior Member
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Rail Moves to Warcop
I was asked recently about the railhead at Warcop. As a Cadet in the late 80s I remember seeing the line at the back of the accommodation and ISTR that RAC Recruit Gunnery took place there as late as the 90s?
Does anyone remember going there by train - and were tanks moved by rail there? I was asked if Centurions would have made the journey?
Grateful for any memories.
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28-01-2012, 18:09 #2
The facility is still there and the MoD was paying NR for the upkeep of the link as late as 5 years ago. I was there a few times but always by road!
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I did gunnery training at Catterick and Warcop in 1976. As to how to get there, we got on a bus in Catterick, drove over the Pennines in the February snow and got off at Warcop.
As for the panzers, Monday afternoon we went up to the firing point and a couple of Chieftains and a Scorpion were just there.Emsdorf and Victory!
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