The broadest definition might be from Plymouth east to Kent and from Roscoff to Zeebrugge although a tighter definition would exclude ports west of Newhaven and Dieppe.
Such trains were able to connect with hospital ships at French channel ports in order to repatriate wounded British soldiers during the first world war.
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