From the end of ‘The Blitz’ in May 1941 to the end of 1943 there was an unprecedented demand on Britain’s railways as the country built up for a future invasion of mainland Europe.

In the second part of this series we see some of the effects on the railways: The transportation of Valentine, Churchill, Covenanter, American Sherman and Canadian Cruiser tanks by train; Ambulance trains with repatriated prisoners; Women rail workers in locomotive maintenance, signalling, station management, infrastructure maintenance and in the railway workshops and an exchange of German prisoners at Newhaven Harbour Station.