early railways constructed,5;possible attacks on two fronts,5;"aggressive" lines,7;early troop transports,8;control of railways in war,50-52;railway ambulance transport,84-6,91-3,94;seealsoGermany, Organisation in.Germany, Organisation in:Influence of American Civil War,104,122;Railway Section of General Staff formed,104;Danish War (1864),104;Austro-Prussian War,104-6;Route Service Regulation,106-9;Franco-Prussian War,110-15;further Regulations,115-6;Field Service Regulations,117;present basis of organisation,118-121;Railway Troops,122-37.Girouard, Sir E. Percy C.:71,225,228,233-7,238-9,240-1,248-9,252,257,258(n.).Goltz, von der:135,139,282,346(n.),352.Gordon, Gen.:221,222.Graham, Gen. Sir G.:223,224(n.).Granet, Sir Guy:197.Grant, Capt. M. H.:251.Grant, Gen.:22.Great Central Railway,197.Great Eastern Rly.:194,204.Great Northern Rly.:194,197,204.Great Western Railway:192,195(n.),197.Grey, Earl de:180.Grund System of Railway Fittings:94.Gurlt, Dr. E.:81,84,85.Gyulia, Count:12.Halleck, Gen.:23-4.Hamley, Gen. Sir E.:207,349(n.).Harkort, F. W.:2-3.Harrison, Mr. C. W. F.:247.Haupt, Herman:Pioneer of Construction Corps, U.S.A.,29-30;rebuilding of bridges,31-2;control questions,43-9;armoured car,72.Hedjaz Railway:335.Herbert, Mr. Sidney:180.Herff, Herr von:305.Heyer, Mr. A. E.:305.Hine, Maj. Charles:37.Hobart, Mr. F.:73.Holland:German strategical lines on Dutch frontier,293-4.Home, R.E., Lieut.-Col. R.:63.Hood, Gen.:35.Hospital Trains;seeRailway Ambulance Transport.India:German anticipations of rebellion,326;the Baghdad railway and India,342,344.Invasion of England:Fears of,67,177-8,182.Italian Campaign(1859):Conveyance of troops by rail,9-13;destruction of railway lines,27;removal of sick and wounded by rail,84.Jacqmin, M.:143,148,235.Jagow, Herr von:325-6.Joesten, Dr. Josef:281,283.Kaerger, Dr. Karl:332-3.Katanga District(Central Africa):316-20.Kelton, J. C.:50.Kitchener, Lord:58,225,226,227,228,229,239.Kuropatkin, Gen.:263,269-70,271,275,355(n.).Lamarque, Gen.:6.Lancashire and Yorkshire Rly.:197.Land Transport Corps(Crimea):181(n.),208,209.Langhams, Paul:338.Lanoir, M. Paul:136-7.Lattmann, Herr:306.Ledebour, Herr:302.Leopold, King:318,325.Limitations in Usefulness of Railways:352-5.Liverpool and Manchester Rly.:1,8.Lobito Bay Rly.:314,319-20.Lodian, Mr. L.:73.London and North Western Rly.:194,197.London and South Western Rly.:192,193,197,199,201.London, Brighton and South Coast Rly.:77-8,197.London, Chatham and Dover Rly.:199.London, Defence of:71.Lorme, M. Dupuy de:75.Luard, R. E., Capt. C. E.:209.Lüderitz, Adolf:298.Luxemburg Railways:288,289,292.McCallum, D. G.:Appointed Military Director, etc., U. S. railroads,17-18;views on situation,19;creation of Transportation Department and Construction Corps,20,32-37;movement of troops,23-4;question of control,50;German translation of report,127.McDowell, Gen.:30,54.McMurdo, Gen. Sir W. M.:180,181,182-3.Mahan, Capt. A. T.:342,344.Manassas Gap Railway:55.Manby, F.R.S., Mr. C.:180.Mangelsdorf, Prof. R.:340.Maquay, R. E., Col. J. P.:214.Marschall, M.,7.Masséna, Marshal:64.Matheson, Mr. D. A.:197.Meade, Maj.-Gen. G. G.:54.Meigs, Gen.:48.Mexico, Railway Destruction in:37-9.Midland Railway:197.Military Operation of Railways:Civil War,20-1;Franco-German War,130-1;British organisation,175;South African War,239-41;Russo-Japanese War,374.Military Railways:Description of,205-6;pioneer military line in Crimean War,206-10;American Civil War,210;Abyssinian Campaign,210-14;Franco-German War,215-6;Russo-Turkish War,216-20;the Sudan,220-231;Russo-Japanese War,272-3;general,349.Millar, R. A., Maj.:9.Moltke, von:8,106,109,278,346(n.).Morache, Dr.:81.Muni(Spanish):324.Nance, Capt. H. O.:80.Nanton, R. E., Capt. H. C.:250.Napier of Magdala, Lord:210.Napier, Sir Charles:178.Napoleon:62,63,64.Nashville and Chattanooga Rly.:33,34.Natal Government Railways:237,246-8,253.Natal Railway Pioneer Staff:247.Nathan, R. E., Lieut. M.:223.National Defence Act, 1888:177,195.Netherlands South African Rly.:240,254-8.Niel, Marshal:138,139.Norton, Mr.Roy:286.North Eastern Rly.:197.North Missouri Railroad:29.O'Connor, Mr. J. K.:310-12,326-7.Orange and Alexandria Railroad:46,55,88.Osman Pasha:218.Panz, Oberst. von:123.Peel, Gen.:176.Pernot, Capt. A.:172,174.Philadelphia-Baltimore Railroad:73.Philadelphia Railroad:87.Pomerania, Strategical Railways in:283.Pönitz, C. E.:4-6,280.Pope, Gen.:43.Porter, Maj.-Gen. Whitworth:209,224.Potter, Mr. F.:197.Powell, Maj.:209.Preparations in Peace:Need for,98-102,106,123,138,149,178-180,184,351-2.Protection of Railways in War:American Civil War,54-5;blockhouses,54,58;placing of civilians on engines or trains,55,57-8;Austro-Prussian War,55-6;Franco-Prussian War,56-8;South African War,58;permanent fortresses,59;use of armoured trains,59;removal of rolling stock,59;destruction of,60;different gauge,60-1;terrorising of civil population,356.Prussian Railway Troops:Formation of Field Railway Section,122;operations in Austro-Prussian campaign,123,124-6;permanent cadre,127;Franco-Prussian War,127-8,130-1;Railway Battalion,132-4;Railway Regiment,134;Communication Troops,134;need for Railway Troops,135-6;railwaymen as spies,136-7;construction of military lines,215-6.Radek, Herr Karl:339-40.Railway Ambulance Transport:Deaths from disease and sickness,81;importance of prompt removal of sick and wounded,82-3;Crimean War,83;Italian War,84;recommendations by Dr. Gurlt,84-5;first Prussian Commission,85;American Civil War,86-91;Danish War,91;Austro-Prussian War,91-2;second Prussian Commission,92-3;Paris International Exhibition (1867),93;third Prussian Commission,94;Franco-Prussian War,94-5;South African War,95-6,253-4;methods now in vogue,96-7.Railway Companies, Royal Engineers:Formation,199;services in Egypt,199;duties,200;training,200-2;services in the Sudan,221-9;South African War,233,240,242,243,251.Railway Pioneer Regiment:242,243.Railways Executive Committee:195-6.Railway Transport Officers:189-191,193-4.Railway Wagons, Unloading of:American Civil War,46,47-8;Austro-Prussian War,105;Franco-German War,111-2,144,145;South African War,234,238,239.Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871:176,177,195,196,197.René, Carl:321-2.Reprisals, Prussia and:55-6.Rhodesia:320,322,327.Roberts, Lord:58,245.Robertus, J. K.:332.Rohrbach, Dr. Paul:338-9,340.Roon, von:85.Roscher, Wilhelm:332.Ross, Prof. Ludwig:338.Rothwell, R. A., Col. J. S.:184.Rumigny, Gen.:3Russia:Early troop movements by rail,8;policy in respect to railway gauge,61,135-6,217;military lines built in campaign against Turkey,216-220;German strategical lines on Russian frontier,284-7.SeealsoRusso-Japanese War.Russo-Japanese War:Distances from theatre of war,260;the Trans-Siberian Railway,261,262-3;Chinese Eastern Railway,261,262;unreadiness of Russia,263;Lake Baikal,263,264-7;ice railway across the lake,266-7;circum-Baikal line,267;traffic hindrances,268;number of trains,268;speed,268;Russian reinforcements in driblets,269;rail improvements,270-1;dependence on railway,271;results accomplished,271-2;field railways,272-3;Railway Troops,273-4;operation,274;control,274-6,355(n.).Russo-Turkish War:Railway gauge,61;