The Sussex Armoured Train

twenty-round broadside it was reported by The Graphic Magazine that, ‘the gun and carriage behaved beautifully, standing on the rails, as firmly as on a rock, while not a pebble of the railway line was shaken.’ There was no danger of the train overturning. The Sussex armoured train never saw active service in England. It is believed it was later shipped out to South Africa to take part in the Boer War.

Commander-In-Chief, the Duke of Cambridge. During its demonstration, the cannon was turned to broadside a target out at sea. Lord Charles Beresford, who described the train as a veritable fort on wheels, fired the second shot. In a

Sources:

The Graphic Magazine 6th July 1895

The Evening Journal 1903

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