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(5.) The railway must give facilities for the preliminary loading 
of the stores, &c., noted for such loading in the foregoing 
tables. 
Arrangements by despatching officer for “ preliminary loading ”—The 
despatching officer at an entraining station will, therefore, arrange 
with the railway authorities for the reservation of a platform at which 
the stores in question can be loaded from 12 to 24 hours before the 
entrainment of the troops by fatigue parties detailed for the purpose. 
The goods platform of a station will probably be the most suitable. 
A siding is not suitable for the purpose unless a high platform is 
constructed. 
It should be arranged that the vehicles of each troop train which 
are told off to be loaded beforehand ( <f preliminary loading section ”) 
are brought to the preliminary loading platform in the consecutive 
order of their troop trains from 12 to 24 hours before the departure of 
the latter. 
Each of the above-mentioned u sections ” will be marked by the 
despatching officer with the number of the troop train and the corps 
to which it belongs, and each vehicle will be marked with the nature of 
the stores for which it is intended. 
The hour for loading each “ section” will be arranged between the 
local military and railway staff, and orders will be issued by the former 
for the necessary fatigue parties. As soon as wagons are loaded, they 
will be locked. 
It will be the duty of the despatching officer to see that these wagons 
are attached to the proper trains. 
Officers commanding corps will carefully consider beforehand what 
. . i , arrangements are- necessary for en- 
bpecial instructions to be drawn up by corps. . . J 
training in an orderly and expeditious 
manner both by night and day. 
The regulations on the subject in the Queen’s Regulations, Drill- 
Books, &c., require modifications and additions, as they are not in 
every case applicable to India, or to the entrainment of troops accom¬ 
panied by followers, transport animals, and carts. 
Officers commanding corps detailed for mobilisation are directed in 
Appendix I., Part A., of the various sections of the Field Service 
Equipment Tables, 1891, to draw up orders for the distribution and 
entrainment of their corps in the trains allotted to it. 
This should at once be done on receipt of this pamphlet of instruc¬ 
tions (the timings of the trains are not required to be known for the 
purpose), and the draft orders kept in the mobilisation box. 
It is also laid down in the Field Service Equipment Tables quoted 
above that the orders for entrainment are to be practically tested as 
far as possible. 
This is a matter for mutual arrangement between the local military 
and railway authorities. 
Officers commanding corps can sometimes, by consulting the con¬ 
venience of the railway authorities, get placed at their disposal, free 
of charge, for purposes of experiment, stock that is standing idle at 
the station. 
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