Before visiting Salisbury Plain, you need to be familiar with all local bylaws and regulations.
Got all that? Understood? Good let’s carry on
Not sure why there’s a train graveyard on Salisbury Plain and unable to determine any meaningful history. Almost certainly an artificial created training environment. But what I do know is that over a million men trained on Salisbury Plain during World War 1. The need to transport large numbers of men to the coast for disembarkation to the battlegrounds meant that a military railway was built from Amesbury station to Larkhill and other camps on Salisbury Plain. Known as the Larkhill Military Light Railway (LMLR), it was wound down in stages during the 1920s until final closure in 1928. A water tower for the military railway can still be seen at Druid’s Lodge on the A360 road south from Stonehenge to Salisbury. The building next to the water tower is allegedly an old engine shed. From experience I know that the tower is doable for climbing but stealth is needed as it’s in someone’s garden. This is all irrelevant anyways as the train graveyard I’m reporting on is in a completely different part of the Plain.
The first batch of soldiers to be trained on the plain during WW1 was the Canadian Expeditionary Force. A big event just after their arrival was that the entire division was inspected by the King on Nov 4th 1914. This picture gives us a sense of the scale of 30000 men.
How times have changed. This is the A303 at Stonehenge which is now a perpetual traffic jam and those men are probably marching faster than the speed I drive past Stonehenge. Be assured that Stonehenge is no longer held up with planks of wood.
Anyways, the photos:
The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil. Originally intended as a utility craft for both civil and naval usage, military interest led to the development of both battlefield and naval variants. The Lynx went into operational usage in 1977 and was later adopted by the armed forces of over a dozen nations.
The Lynx has the distinction of being the world's first fully aerobatic helicopter, capable of performing loops and rolls, and of attaining high speeds. In 1986, a specially modified Lynx set the current Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's official airspeed record for helicopters at 249 mph. As of 2014, this record remains unbroken.
In service date: 1978
Maximum all up mass: 4875kg (Mk 7), 5330 kg (Mk 9A)
Engines: 2 x Rolls Royce GEM (Mk 7), 2 x T800 (Mk 9A)
Crew: 2 (3 with Crewman) + 6 troops
Length: 50ft 1inch
Main rotor diameter: 42ft
Height: 12ft 5inches
Maximum speed: 160knots
Range: 280NM
Armament: 7.62mm general purpose machine gun or M3M 12.7mm machine gun
Funny face at the back... or is it only me that sees it
Security were excessively rough with us and really there was no need for them to deploy these against us.
Thanks for looking.
Got all that? Understood? Good let’s carry on
Not sure why there’s a train graveyard on Salisbury Plain and unable to determine any meaningful history. Almost certainly an artificial created training environment. But what I do know is that over a million men trained on Salisbury Plain during World War 1. The need to transport large numbers of men to the coast for disembarkation to the battlegrounds meant that a military railway was built from Amesbury station to Larkhill and other camps on Salisbury Plain. Known as the Larkhill Military Light Railway (LMLR), it was wound down in stages during the 1920s until final closure in 1928. A water tower for the military railway can still be seen at Druid’s Lodge on the A360 road south from Stonehenge to Salisbury. The building next to the water tower is allegedly an old engine shed. From experience I know that the tower is doable for climbing but stealth is needed as it’s in someone’s garden. This is all irrelevant anyways as the train graveyard I’m reporting on is in a completely different part of the Plain.
The first batch of soldiers to be trained on the plain during WW1 was the Canadian Expeditionary Force. A big event just after their arrival was that the entire division was inspected by the King on Nov 4th 1914. This picture gives us a sense of the scale of 30000 men.
How times have changed. This is the A303 at Stonehenge which is now a perpetual traffic jam and those men are probably marching faster than the speed I drive past Stonehenge. Be assured that Stonehenge is no longer held up with planks of wood.
Anyways, the photos:
The Westland Lynx is a British multi-purpose military helicopter designed and built by Westland Helicopters at its factory in Yeovil. Originally intended as a utility craft for both civil and naval usage, military interest led to the development of both battlefield and naval variants. The Lynx went into operational usage in 1977 and was later adopted by the armed forces of over a dozen nations.
The Lynx has the distinction of being the world's first fully aerobatic helicopter, capable of performing loops and rolls, and of attaining high speeds. In 1986, a specially modified Lynx set the current Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's official airspeed record for helicopters at 249 mph. As of 2014, this record remains unbroken.
In service date: 1978
Maximum all up mass: 4875kg (Mk 7), 5330 kg (Mk 9A)
Engines: 2 x Rolls Royce GEM (Mk 7), 2 x T800 (Mk 9A)
Crew: 2 (3 with Crewman) + 6 troops
Length: 50ft 1inch
Main rotor diameter: 42ft
Height: 12ft 5inches
Maximum speed: 160knots
Range: 280NM
Armament: 7.62mm general purpose machine gun or M3M 12.7mm machine gun
Funny face at the back... or is it only me that sees it
Security were excessively rough with us and really there was no need for them to deploy these against us.
Thanks for looking.
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