British troops began landing in Alexandria on 17 July 1882, and on 5 August they made a probing attack on the main Egyptian lines at Kafr-el-Dawwar1 which blocked the route to Cairo. Perhaps inspired by the British use of an armoured train, on 25 August the Egyptian forces of Colonel Ahmed Arabi assembled an armoured train of their own to support their position. Once the British under Sir Garnet Wolseley had moved the main thrust of their attack to Ismailia on the Suez Canal, the Kafr-el-Dawwar front became a side-show, and there is no mention of the Egyptian armoured train after 29 August.
SOURCES:
Hawera & Normanby Star (NZ), Volume III, No 294 (30 August 1882), p 2.
1. One also finds the name written as ‘Kafradowar’.