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So far as possible personnel will be railed at once to
reception areas so as to clear the ports and Eastern Command: but reserves
of road transport will be held available (see para. 13 ).
6. Reception areas
or billets is available as follows (for detail see para. 8 ).
Emergency accommodation by doubling up in existing barracks
Aldershot Command
60,000
Southern
11
150,000
Western
"
80,000
Northern
"
40,000
(S.part)
7. Movement organisation
Linison Officer with V.A. Dover notifies incoming ships to - -
Control of sea movement rests with V.A. Dover. Military
a. Southern Railway Control, Dover
b. Local Movement Control at disembarkation point
(Landing Control).
Landing Control will count numbers disembarked, noting units
and casualties, but ontrainment must not be delayed on this account. Landing
Control will report departuro time, approximate numbers and any useful
information to Redhill Control by railway telephone.
Trains will be conspicuously marked by the Railway authorities
with the code letter and consecutive number, e.g. R3 will be the third
special from Ramsgate.
Redhill Control (with military and railway representatives)
is the regulating point for onward movement and all trains will be routed
via Rodhill in the absence of other instructions.
Subsidiary regulating points will be ostablished at Salisbury,
Reading and Banbury to control distribution of trains to final dostination.
In addition to above Movement Control points a military
liaison staff (Transportation) will be attached to H.Q. Southorn Railway,
Doepdone, to provide for military assistance to tho railways in the evont
of air interforence.
8. Routing of trains
Goneral instructions as to dostination areas will be given to
Redhill Control by War Office. Rodhill will route trains to subsidiary
distribution controls as follows:-
so
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