The story of H.M. Factory Gretna and it’s internal railway system (Devils Porridge Museum Eastriggs) скачать в хорошем качестве

The story of H.M. Factory Gretna and it’s internal railway system (Devils Porridge Museum Eastriggs)

In this video I will be telling the amazing story of H.M. Factory Gretna. The aim of the factory was to produce sufficient supplies of ammunition to support British troops fighting in France during World War 1. The complex was 9 miles in length and split between two principle sites, Dornock in Scotland, and Mossband in England. At its height there were 30,000 workers with over 12,000 women working within the operational plants in the difficult and dangerous job of producing cordite ‘the Devil’s porridge’. Known as the Gretna Girls, they were housed in new townships that were constructed in Gretna and Eastriggs. The site of H.M. Factory Gretna was chosen because of its close proximity to three principle Scottish railway systems and an internal railway system was simultaneously created to move materials and workers. There were 16 stations with 125 miles of railway track. At its height in 1917 the factory received nearly 90,000 rail wagons loaded with products and by-products to support war production along with over 5 million passenger journeys around the site itself. I would like to express my thanks to the Devil’s Porridge Museum at Eastriggs for their kind permission to use the photo’s and archive clips contained in this video.