200 yard Moving Target Ranges

Found this article showing a Naval turret trainer.

www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1940/1940%20-%202517.html

We know the when but what about the where and what?

Good find. I wonder what type of gunnery it was used for and what traveled on the zig zags as the bends are rather tight.

The only other "conformist" range feature is the tank training triangle (e.g. Cowden) used by the army. Although some did get used for RP practice, though not the triangles I suspect.

Possibly going off topic but does anyone know more about the artillery range at Harlech, associated with the Trawsfynydd Army base ? The trackbed of the railway is still visible here

It's a distorted "dumbbell" shape in the centre of the view, large loops at either end, one in fields, the other in the trees at the southern end. It's marked on the OS 1:25,000 maps more clearly.

JohnG

This is one is mentioned, and has an aerial photo (1940s) in Ivor Jones North volume on page 26. It is a railway for practice against moving trains. It was used by the RAF as well as the Army. I don't know the "official" name for the range but I have it noted as Traeth Dy.

Sorry, link now updated !

Somewhere I've seen some photos of it showing the remains of the trackbed and embankments built of sandbags, etc..

JohnG

Had a look at the files on the Silloth ranges an TNA today and early postwar there was a plan to rotate the MTR to orientate it NE-SW (ish). Obviously not a simple operation but it shows they were still being considered post war.