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Old 02-18-2017, 10:19 PM
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The work on the SW England railway network is brilliant, but I'm afraid that it was never that important during the BoB.

Due to the excellent British radar and communications networks, trains received advanced warning of incoming raiders which allowed them to be held or moved outside of the battle zone or stopped (possibly hidden) if they couldn't be evacuated from the area.

The exception was that British trains along the SW coast were vulnerable to German "tip and run" raids in 1943-1944, although they were never priority targets. Occasionally, during 1940-42, British trains would be strafed as targets of opportunity by low-flying Bf-109, but they were never official targets.

More important if you want to simulate targets of organized attacks on the British railway system would be representations of marshaling yards and major railway stations. For example, King's Cross St Pancras Station in London was heavily damaged during the Blitz.

But, I hope that similar level of detail for railways is applied to the French side of the map, since the RAF and USAAF systematically and viciously attacked the French railway system prior to D-Day.
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