Before regaining the independence in 1918

• Dywizja Syberyjska (Siberian Division) had 3 armoured trains: Warszawa, Kraków and Poznań, and captured a fourth: Poznań II
• 10 February-10 May1918 improvised armoured train of Związek Broni.

Battle of Lwów (1918)

Battle of Lwów (1918)

Battle of Lviv begun on 1 November 1918 and lasted till May 1919 and was a six months long conflict between the forces of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and local Polish civilian population assisted later by regular Polish Army forces for the control...

 

• Kozak
• Piłsudczyk
  Piłsudczyk (armoured train)
  Piłsudczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the defence of Poland after the German invasion in 1939.-History:In the forming Polish army captured a new Austro-Hungarian train. Parts of the train were used to form the armoured train Piłsudczyk. The train was used in the battle for...
  
  
• PP 3
• Gromobój
  Gromobój (armoured train)
  Gromobój was a Polish improvised armoured train from the period of the Polish-Ukrainian war . The train took part in the fighting in the area of the rail junction in Zagórze. The train's armour was constructed from walls of brick, between which was river gravel. The locomotive used in the train was...
  
  
• Pionier

Polish-Soviet War

Polish-Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War was an armed conflict between Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine and the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic—four states in post–World War I Europe...

 

Names of fifty trains have been confirmed, but it is hard to be sure the exact number that remain to be found. Near the end of the war, on December 1, 1920, twenty-six trains formed the part of the armoured train Polish forces:

• nr 1 Piłsudczyk
  Piłsudczyk (armoured train)
  Piłsudczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the defence of Poland after the German invasion in 1939.-History:In the forming Polish army captured a new Austro-Hungarian train. Parts of the train were used to form the armoured train Piłsudczyk. The train was used in the battle for...
  
  
• nr 2 Śmiały
  Śmiały (armoured train)
  The armoured train Śmiały , also called armoured train number 53 was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939...
  
  
• nr 3 Lis-Kula
• nr 4 Hallerczyk
• nr 5 Stefan Batory
• nr 6 Generał Iwaszkiewicz
• nr 7 Chrobry
• nr 8 Wilk
• nr 9 Danuta
  Danuta (armoured train)
  The Danuta, also called armoured train number 11 was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939.-History:...
  
  
• nr 10 Pionier
• nr 11 Poznańczyk
  Poznańczyk (armoured train)
  Poznańczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish–Soviet War and in the Second World War....
  
  
• nr 12 Kaniów
• nr 13 Zawisza Czarny
• nr 14 Zagończyk
• nr 15 Paderewski
• nr 16 Mściciel
• nr 17 Reduta Ordona
• nr 18 Huragan
• nr 19 Podhalanin
• nr 20 Bartosz Głowacki
• nr 21 Pierwszy Marszałek
• nr 22 Groźny
• nr 23 Śmierć
• nr 24 Śmigły
• nr 25 Stefan Czarniecki
• nr 26 Generał Sosnkowski

Other:

• Gromobój
  Gromobój (armoured train)
  Gromobój was a Polish improvised armoured train from the period of the Polish-Ukrainian war . The train took part in the fighting in the area of the rail junction in Zagórze. The train's armour was constructed from walls of brick, between which was river gravel. The locomotive used in the train was...
  
  
• Rozwadowczyk
• Saper
• Smok
• Śmiały-szeroki – disbanded on 2 April 1920

Lost in 1920:

• Boruciątko
• Boruta – 25 July at Kuźnica
  Kuznica
  Kuźnica is a popular Polish sea side resort, a part of the town of Jastarnia. Located between Chałupy and Jastarnia on the Hel Peninsula on the southern Baltic Sea in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland....
  
  
• Dąbrowski – 5 July at Równe
  Równe
  Równe may refer to:*Polish name for Rivne in Ukraine*Równe, Masovian Voivodeship *Równe, Opole Voivodeship *Równe, Pomeranian Voivodeship *Równe, Subcarpathian Voivodeship...
  
  
• Generał Dowbór – 6 June at Wczerajsze
• Generał Konarzewski – 9 July at Bobrujsk
• Generał Listowski – 2 August at Terespol
  Terespol
  Terespol is a town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus...
  
  
• Generał Sikorski – 26 June Słowieczne
• Piłsudczyk szeroki – 19 July at Baranowicze
• Pionier-szeroki – 17 June

In mid-1921, twelve trains were disbanded, and others were standardized. The twelve were retained and formed six divisions (dywizjon), which were attached to three regiments (pułks) of train sapper

Sapper

A sapper, pioneer or combat engineer is a combatant soldier who performs a wide variety of combat engineering duties, typically including, but not limited to, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences, general construction and building, as well as road and airfield...

s:

• nr 1 Piłsudczyk
  Piłsudczyk (armoured train)
  Piłsudczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the defence of Poland after the German invasion in 1939.-History:In the forming Polish army captured a new Austro-Hungarian train. Parts of the train were used to form the armoured train Piłsudczyk. The train was used in the battle for...
  
  
• nr 2 Śmigły
• nr 3 Pierwszy Marszałek
• nr 4 Groźny
• nr 5 Danuta
  Danuta (armoured train)
  The Danuta, also called armoured train number 11 was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939.-History:...
  
  
• nr 6 Zagończyk
• nr 7 Paderewski
• nr 8 Śmierć
• nr 9 Poznańczyk
  Poznańczyk (armoured train)
  Poznańczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish–Soviet War and in the Second World War....
  
  
• nr 10 Bartosz Głowacki
• nr 11 Stefan Czarniecki
• nr 12 Generał Sosnkowski

In 1924 those divisions were disbanded, and their equipment deposited in mobilisation reserve stores. For training purposes a training division was created (attached to the 2nd Regiment of Train Sappers in Jabłonno. This division retained two trains:

• Danuta
  Danuta (armoured train)
  The Danuta, also called armoured train number 11 was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939.-History:...
  
  
• Generał Sosnkowski

In January 1925 this division was renamed 'Armoured Train Training Division'.

Third Silesian Uprising (1921)

June 1921:
1 dywizjon

• nr 1 Korfanty
• nr 2 Nowina-Doliwa

2 dywizjon

• nr 3 Piorun
• nr 4 Naprzód

3 dywizjon

• nr 5 Powstaniec
• nr 6 Ślązak

4 dywizjon

• nr 7 Bajończyk
• nr 8 Górnik

5 dywizjon

• nr 9 Lubieniec
• nr 10 Ludyga

6 dywizjon

• nr 12 Pantera
• nr 13 Nowak (Nowak II)

7 dywizjon

• nr 14 Zygmunt Powstaniec
• nr 15 Tadek Ślązak

8 dywizjon

• nr 11 Lew
• nr 16 Testart (Piast)

Other:

• Kabicz – narrow track
• Ułan

September 1939

• nr 11 Danuta
  Danuta (armoured train)
  The Danuta, also called armoured train number 11 was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939.-History:...
  
   (commander – kpt. Bolesław Korobowicz)
• nr 12 Poznańczyk
  Poznańczyk (armoured train)
  Poznańczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish–Soviet War and in the Second World War....
  
   (commander – kpt. Kazimierz Majewski)
• nr 13 Generał Sosnkowski
  General Sosnkowski (armoured train)
  The Generał Sosnkowski was a Polish armoured train that was developed during the Second Polish Republic.- History :The PP 13 Generał Sosnkowski was built in 1920, at the Cegielski plant in Poznań. Though modernized in the 1930s, its outward appearance retained its earlier characteristics. It saw...
  
   (commander – kpt. Stanisław Młodzianowski)
• nr 14 Paderewski (commander – kpt. Jerzy Żelechowski)
• nr 15 Śmierć (commander – kpt. Kazimierz Kubaszewski)
• nr 51 Pierwszy Marszałek (commander – kpt. Leon Cymborski)
• nr 52 Piłsudczyk
  Piłsudczyk (armoured train)
  Piłsudczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the defence of Poland after the German invasion in 1939.-History:In the forming Polish army captured a new Austro-Hungarian train. Parts of the train were used to form the armoured train Piłsudczyk. The train was used in the battle for...
  
   (commander – kpt. Mikołaj Gonczar)
• nr 53 Śmiały
  Śmiały (armoured train)
  The armoured train Śmiały , also called armoured train number 53 was a Polish armoured train used by the Polish army during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939...
  
   (commander – kpt. Mieczysław Malinowski)
• nr 54 Groźny (commander – kpt. Jan Rybczyński)
• nr 55 Bartosz Głowacki (commander – kpt. Andrzej Podgórski)
• Training armoured trains:
  • Zagończyk
  • Stefan Czarniecki
• Improvised armoured trains:
  • Two of Coast Defence Command (Dowództo Obrony Wybrzeża):
    • ? (commander – por. Z. Budzyński)
    • Smok Kaszubski
      Smok Kaszubski (armoured train)
      Smok Kaszubski was an improvised Polish armoured train, which served in the Polish defensive war against the German aggression in 1939. The train was part of the Lądowa Obrona Wybrzeża ....
      
       (commander – kpt. mar. Jerzy Tadeusz Błeszyński, and after he got wounded, por. F. Hubicki)
  • Two of Warsaw Defence Command (Dowództwo Obrony Warszawy):
    • nr 1
    • nr 2

Polish armoured trains in United Kingdom (1940-1943)

• I dywizjon – trains: C, G, E
• II dywizjon – trains: A, D, F
• III dywizjon – trains: B, M, H
• IV dywizjon – trains: Nr 10, 11, 12 renamed in 1941 to K, L, J

Armoured trains of Railway Defence Service (Służba Ochrony Kolei, SOK) after 1945

• nr 1 Szczecin
• nr 2 Grom
• nr 3 Huragan
• nr 4 Błyskawica

Retired from service after 1950.

Train artillery 

• On the basis of German armoured train in 1947 a train artillery division DAKOL was formed.

Surviving units

• armoured wagon (likely from nr 11 Poznańczyk
  Poznańczyk (armoured train)
  Poznańczyk was a Polish armoured train which participated in the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish–Soviet War and in the Second World War....
  
  ) in Poznań
  Poznan
  Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
  
  
• heavy armoured handcar
  Handcar
  A handcar is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases...
  
   PT16 (Panzertriebwagen 16) in Muzeum Kolejnictwa w Warszawie.

Slovakia

• Štefánik
  Armored train Štefánik
  The Armored train Štefánik was a military train used during World War II in Slovakia.The building of the armored train started on September 4, 1944. It was finished on September 18, 1944 in a Railway Manufacture in Zvolen, Slovakia.It was equipped with:* the Czechoslovak mountain cannon vz...
  
  
• Hurban
  Armored train Hurban
  The Armored train Hurban is an armored train used during World War II, during the Slovak National Uprising. The Hurban was constructed on September 25, 1944 in the Railway Manufactory in Zvolen, Slovakia, and was the last armored train used in the Slovak National Uprising.- Combat history :The...
  
  
• Masaryk

Armoured vehicles and auxiliary support vehicles

• Type K2 Steam Locomotive No.134
• Type C56 Steam Locomotive No.31
• Type 91 Broad-gauge Railroad Tractor (So-Mo)
• Type95 Armoured Railroad Car (So-Ki)
• Type 98 Railroad Tractor
• Type 100 Railroad Tractor
• Type 2598 Railroad Car
• Railroad Construction Vehicle

Railway Heavy Cannon

• Type 90 240 mm Railway Cannon (Futtsu Cannon)
• Generator Waggon for Type 90 240 mm Railway Cannon

Armoured trains

Type 94 Armoured Train

Type 94 Armoured Train

The Type 94 Armoured train was built in 1934 and used by the Japanese forces in World War II. It had 8 cars and loaded two Type 14 10cm AA Gun and two Type 88 AA Guns. This armoured train was deployed as the 1st Armoured Train Unit in Manchuria....

• Waggon-1 Reconnaissance Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
• Waggon-2 Canone Waggon Ko (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
• Waggon-3 Canone Waggon otsu (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
• Waggon-4 Canone Waggon Hei (Manchuria Railway 60t waggon "Chii" modified)
• Waggon-5 Command Waggon (Manchuria Railway 60t coal waggon "Tasa" modified)
• Locomotive (Manchuria Railway type "Mikado")
• Waggon-6 Tender Waggon (as support waggon)
• Waggon-7 Power Supply Waggon (Manchuria Railway 60t coal waggon "Tasa" modified)

Special Armoured Train

• Waggon-1 Protective Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
• Waggon-2 Heavy Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
• Waggon-3 Light Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
• Waggon-4 Infantry Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
• Waggon-5 Command Waggon (waggon was built two floors)
• Locomotive (Manchuria Railway type "Sorii" locomotive modified)
• Waggon-6 Auxiliary Tender (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
• Waggon-7 Materials Waggon (Manchuria Railway third class bogey "Ha-2" modified)
• Waggon-8 Infantry Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)
• Waggon-9 Light Canone Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
• Waggon-10 Howitzer Waggon (Manchuria Railway 50t coal waggon "Tai" modified)
• Waggon-11 Protective Waggon (Manchuria Railway 30t waggon modified)

Others types of Japanese Armoured trains

• Improvised Armoured Train

In 1920s, the Japanese built some improvised armoured trains converted from normal trains. They were used to guard the railways in Manchuria.

Iraq

• Iraqi Armored Train

During the Anglo-Iraqi War

Anglo-Iraqi War

The Anglo-Iraqi War was the name of the British campaign against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in the Kingdom of Iraq during the Second World War. The war lasted from 2 May to 31 May 1941. The campaign resulted in the re-occupation of Iraq by British armed forces and the return to power of the...

 the British reported capturing an Iraqi armoured train near Basra in May 1941.

Croatia

• Croatian Armored Train

Croatian Army possesses one armoured train which mounted French Hotchkiss

Hotchkiss et Cie

Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Hotchkiss et Cie was a French arms and car company established by United States engineer Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, who was born in Watertown, Connecticut. He moved to France and set up a factory, first at Viviez near Rodez in 1867, then at Saint-Denis near...

 H38 turrets.

Republika Srpska Krajina

• Krajina express

The Serb army of Krajina used an armoured train with M-18 and a AA cannon M-55 20/3mm

First Indochina War

First Indochina War

The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...

 (1946-1954)

• La Rafale, two trains blindés ("TB", armoured trains) were used by the 2e Etranger (French Foreign Legion
  French Foreign Legion
  The French Foreign Legion is a unique military service wing of the French Army established in 1831. The foreign legion was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces...
  
  ) from 1948 to 1954 in French Indochina
  French Indochina
  French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of the three Vietnamese regions, Tonkin , Annam , and Cochinchina , as well as Cambodia, was formed in 1887....
  
   (Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
   and Cambodia
  Cambodia
  Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
  
  ).

Battle of Malaya

Battle of Malaya

The Malayan Campaign was a campaign fought by Allied and Japanese forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 31 January 1942 during the Second World War. The campaign was dominated by land battles between British Commonwealth army units, and the Imperial Japanese Army...

In Malaya in 1942, an armoured train was part of Operation Krohcol

Operation Krohcol

Operation Krohcol, or the Battle for The Ledge, was a British operation in December 1941 to move into southern Thailand following the Japanese invasion of Malaya and of Thailand during World War II...

, the British advance into Siam to resist the Japanese attack.

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a gauge light railway in Kent, England. The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St...

A 15 inch gauge armoured train was operated on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a gauge light railway in Kent, England. The line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St...

 by the British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

for the purposes of coastal defence during WWII. The RH&DR's locomotive number 5 'Hercules' was fitted with plating and ran with two plated trucks, which patrolled the line for most of WW2

1939-1945

101. sz. páncélvonat - high train

• machine-gun wagon ( 1 x 36M 37mm AT gun, 1 x 36M 20mm AP gun, 4 x 31M 8mm machine gun)
• MÁV 377 locomotive
• casemate-wagon (1 x 18M 8 cm field gun, 1 x 36M 20mm AP gun, 2 x 31M 8mm machine gun)

102. sz. páncélvonat - flat train

• machinegun wagon ( 1 x 36M 37mm AT gun, 1 x 36M 20mm heavy gun, 4 x 31M 8mm machine gun)
• MÁV 377 locomotive
• artillery wagon (1 x 22M 8 cm field gun, 1 x 36M 20mm AP gun, 2 x 31M 8mm machine gun)

103. sz. páncélvonat - high train

• machine-gun wagon ( 1 x 36M 37mm AT gun, 1 x 36M 20mm AP gun, 4 x 31M 8mm machine gun)
• MÁV 377 locomotive
• casemate-wagon (1 x 22M 8 cm field gun, 1 x 36M 20mm AP gun, 2 x 31M 8mm machine gun)

104. sz. páncélvonat - self-propelled, motor-driven train ( 1 x 36M 20mm AP gun, 1 x 22M 8 cm field gun, 2 x 31M 8mm machine gun)

United States

At least one armored diesel locomotive was built by Alco as #10001 for WWI usage, however with the Armistice just 14 days away, it never left the country.