Upon further reflection,those tank`s in the picture of the railway train seem oddly to contradict the history upon how tanks were shipped out of the factory. They are not in wooden crates. In fact the tanks were never shipped out in crates on one occasion from the factory centre at Thetford England. The destination was inscribed "With Care to Petrograd" in Russian on the hull for their transport to Russia.
The photo of the train is dated 1917,so are those in the picture these tanks shipped to Russia? Well I gess without other information that question can never be answered in full. One thing is for certain the railway trailers (Wagons ) cannot be the ones from Britain because of the differing size of the rail way system elsewhere.So it remains a Mystery!
The picture of the Wheel Russian Tzar Tank,is the reason Britain shipped the tanks out to Russia in the first place,because they had no idea on how too design their own. When Russia was undergoing a revolution, the country in tatters the people fed up,the communists against the war,Britain sends them a top secret weapon.Russian Peace with the Germans finally came in 1917, ( The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ),the date of the picture. So did the powers that be just simply hand over the tanks to the Germans as a goodwill jesture? Perhaps. I thought this topic upon these questions might be of interest to some members. BB