THREE countries, four steam locomotives and a journey of just over 1,000 miles from Manchester to Berlin are all part of a remarkable plan in June 2019 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
The train, billed as the ‘Very Last British Military Train’, will celebrate the role of the British armed forces in Germany since March 1945, a chapter in European history that will come to an end next year with the final withdrawal of British forces from the country.
It will be the second and final re-creation of the famous ‘British Military Train’ (the first was in May 2012), which ran from 1945 until 1990, linking Hannover and Braunschweig with West Berlin.
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Organised by Cold War Express, the seven-night itinerary on June 11-18 will follow the route of the long-lost ‘North Country Continental’ from Manchester to Harwich on Day 1 – one of the classic British boat trains of the conscription era – to connect with the overnight Stena ferry to Hook of Holland.
Read more in the March issue of The RM – on sale now!
