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The strafing of trains

So often we seen in documentaries the gun camera footage of trains being straffed or having rockets fired at them and they blow up. Typhoons, Spitfires, Mustangs, Mosquitos, Thunderbolts and all sorts of fighters used to attack the trains on continental Europe. Usually the results look pretty devastating to anyone who was aboard. And I understand that hundreds of trains were destroyed or disabled in France, Belgium, Germany, etc in WWII.

My question is, what happened after the gun camera footage ends and the fighter went home? Did the German Army or their railway network company have special units that went around to attack sites to remove the exploded engines and shot up carriages? I’m sure it cannot have been an easy task to shift the wreckage of a large locomotive and its many carriages so they could clear and repair the tracks. The average town or village railway station won’t have had the expertise and equipment surely to move such a huge wreck?

Was there a special ‘flying squad’ who cleaned up the messes?

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