From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 14/04/2022 09:49, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   > On 14/04/2022 09:18, cecilia wrote:   
   >> ! gather from a comment in an anecdote that in 1944 there was a a ban,   
   >> until about 10 weeks after D-Day, on general travel south in England   
   >> because of troop movements to Normandy .   
   >>   
   >> Is it possible to confirm when it ended?   
   >>   
   >> Would next-of-kin of hospitalised seriously wounded soldiers have been   
   >> Exempt from the restriction (i.e. able to travel to visit) or would   
   >> they have had to wait?   
   >   
   > The ban came in long before D-Day for security reasons. I'm not aware   
   > that it continued long after D-Day, though obviously troop movements and   
   > military logistics would have had absolute priority on rail and road.   
   >   
   > Unfortunately google is not very helpful and the books I have all   
   > concentrate on events the other side of the channel after D-Day.   
   >   
      
   Just to add, the pre-invasion restrictions were on people /leaving/ the   
   south. Once inside the perimeter you couldn't leave.   
      
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