camp-engine

Updated: May 3, 2025

Daily at three o'clock in the morning the 'camp-engine' started with the 'bank parties. With the dawn the 'material' train arrived, the platelaying gangs swarmed over it like clusters of flies, and were carried to the extreme limit of the track. Every man knew his task, and knew, too, that he would return to camp when it was finished, and not before.

Winston Churchill - The River War : An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan