armoured-train

Updated: May 22, 2025

I write this in the station bar, where some of us have been having a cup of tea. A Dublin Fusilier, who had been a prisoner since the armoured-train affair at Estcourt until Roberts reached Pretoria, told us we "had a good name here," for Bethlehem, etc. He vaguely talked of Botha and Delarey "dodging round" near here.

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.

Beyond the maze of "points" is moored the strangest of all rolling-stock, the grey-coated armoured-train, within whose iron walls are domesticated two amphibious petty officers darning their socks.

John Hartman Morgan - Leaves from a Field Note-Book