🎖 More than 20,000 railway workers from Britain lost their lives during WWI, after more than 100,000 enlisted in 1914. 🎥 Our new film commemorates those who served and the role of the railway during the conflict: ➡ https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/film-the-railway-at-war-1914-1918 | Network Rail

Explosive Coal - The Secret Weapon Hidden in Coal, How Spies Sabotaged Germany in the Second World War. During the darkest days of the Second World War, Allied intelligence turned one of Germany’s most vital resources into a deadly weapon. Coal powered Nazi trains, factories, power stations, and steelworks. But hidden among ordinary fuel supplies were explosive coal bombs — carefully disguised charges designed to look exactly like real lumps of coal. Once shoveled into a boiler, the result was c