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3. The locomotives and persons required for their service, are employed 
over the same extent of rail only, as they are accustomed to traverse in 
time of peace. In unavoidable and exceptional cases care is to be taken to 
exercise the drivers by preliminary trial-trips over those portions of the 
lines with which they are unacquainted. 
4. In the application of the preceding principles there can on the 
average be dispatched in both directions eight trains daily upon single lines, 
and upon lines double throughout, twelve trains, besides a few for the 
service of the railway and the post, as well as for commissariat stores. 
Were the goods trains entirely discontinued, and the trains for the traffic of 
the line reduced to a minimum, and regulated conformably to the military 
time table, as many as ten trains could daily be dispatched on single lines, 
and fourteen on lines double throughout. 
It is recommended to start the trains at intervals of an hour and a half, 
and in such a manner as to gain the interval of a day which could be 
employed in compensation for any irregularities occurring during the 
transport. 
In effecting the transport of a large body of troops, requiring about 
fourteen days for its accomplishment, one or two days of rest on which no 
troops are embarked, are included on each line. These days are utilized to 
compensate for irregularities which may arise. 
5. There can be carried, as a rule, in a military train, one battalion 
of 1000 men, or one squadron of 150 horses, or one battery of six pieces, 
or three-fourths of an ammunition or other column, each body of troops 
being provided with its war equipment, the train not numbering less than 
sixty axles, nor much over 100 axles in strength. According to this scale 
is regulated also, the distribution of the staff, the pontoon column, the 
divisions of the train, and the administration. On an average there can be 
carried per axle, sixteen men, or three to four horses with one to two horse- 
holders, or | to | of a carriage. 
Commissariat stores are most satisfactorily forwarded by being attached 
in one or more wagons to the troop trains during intervals in the troop 
transport. Definite arrangements for these stores can hardly be effected 
with the necessary precision beforehand, and freedom in the movement is 
desirable. By this method moreover special escorts are saved. 
It is accordingly the duty of the Intendantur to place itself in proper 
time in communication with the Line-commission with reference to the 
dispatch of commissariat stores. Should circumstances however make it 
necessary to transport these stores in trains specially provided for them, such 
trains must be included in the total number for the day's service, and are 
to be taken into account in arranging the time tables and dispositions for 
the journey. 
N. B. A store train will carry a day’s supply for an army-corps. 
6. No wagons may be attached to military trains for traffic of any other 
kind, with the exception of the wagons for the post, and a few for the use 
of the Intendantur, or for the forwarding of army materiel within the limit 
laid down in the preceding clause. 
