Rail staff deliver PPE to medical teams

NETWORK Rail lent its staff and vehicles for a special delivery from Merseyside to an army barracks in Aldershot on March 23.

The 230-mile journey was part of an army logistics operation to provide protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The railway vehicles carried 22 pallets of face masks from a storage warehouse in

St Helens to 101 Logistic Brigade at St Omer Barracks, ready to be distributed to medical staff treating patients with coronavirus.