1st
Light Railway Operating Company (Victoria)
Formed Victoria December 1916 as 2nd Section, Australian Railway Troops.
Departed Melbourne Ballarat
19 February 1917 and torpedoed by a submarine en route 27 March 1917.
Arrived Devonport, England 25 April 1917. Redesignated 55th Broad Gauge
Railway Operating Company April 1917 and 15th Light Railway Operating
Company August 1917. Renamed 1st Light Railway Operating Company 28
February1918.
England, Western Front
2nd
Light Railway Operating Company
Formed Australia January 1917 as 5th Section, Australian Railway Troops.
Arrived England 21 July 1917. Redesignated 16th Light Railway Operating
Company July 1917. Arrived France 4 October 1917. Renumbered 2nd Light
Railway Operating Company 28 February1918.
England, Western Front
3rd
Light Railway (Forward) Company
Formed France 11 June 1917 as 17th Anzac Light Railway Operating
Company. Renamed 3rd Light Railway Operating Company March 1918.
Reorganised as a forward company and redesignated 3rd Light Railway
(Forward) Company 19 September 1918.
Western Front
4th
Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company (Queensland, South Australia and
Tasmania)
Formed Australia December 1916 as 4th Section, Australian Railway
Troops. Arrived England 20 July 1917. Redesignated 35th Broad Gauge
Railway Operating Company July 1917. Arrived France 4 September 1917.
Renumbered 4th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company March 1918.
England, Western Front
5th
Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company (Western Australia)
Formed Australia December 1916 as 3rd Section, Australian Railway
Troops. Departed Fremantle Militiades
29 January 1917. Arrived Bordon, England 27 March 1917. Redesignated
59th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company April 1917. Arrived Le Havre,
France 12 May 1917. Renumbered 5th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company
March 1918.
England, Western Front
6th
Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company (New South Wales)
Formed Australia December 1916 as 1st Section, Australian Railway
Troops. Arrived England 11 April 1917. Redesignated 60th Broad Gauge
Railway Operating Company April 1917. Arrived France 14 April 1917.
Renumbered 6th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company March 1918.
England, Western Front
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