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  1. Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine

    Date released
    1952
    Series name
    Shell Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    20
    NoS ID
    349968
    Story no
    1 / 3

    BFI Summary - one of the oldest steam engines in the world at work Shell synopsis: The first feature is entitled ‘Newcomen’s Atmospheric Engine’.  In 1705 Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire ironmonger,...

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  2. Launching Steam Engines from Beardmore’s Works

    Date released
    14 Jan 1924
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1337
    NoS ID
    079615
    Story no
    4 / 4

    Small train tows another.

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  3. The Bluebell Line

    Date released
    1980
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1110
    NoS ID
    329351
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: In Britain the age of steam is still alive and puffing, with over 100 steam railway companies now operating. Maggie Palmer visits the Bluebell Line in Sussex and meets the Reverend Awdry,...

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  4. Traction Engines

    Date released
    1966
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 1)
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    350182
    Story no
    2 / 6

    NoS synopsis: Model steam engines are demonstrated in the studio together with footage from a traction engine fair.

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  5. Building for the Future

    Date released
    1957
    Series name
    Home and Away
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    352799
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Babcock and Wilcox synopsis: The Works of Edwin Danks & Co. (Oldbury) Ltd., subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd. have been greatly modernized and extended in the past few years and early in 1957 the fine new...

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  6. Development Areas

    Date released
    May 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346976
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: A survey of the depressed areas of the 1930s, concentrating on those in the N.E. of England. Rl.1 Industrial South Wales, N.E. England - the river Tyne, Durham and S.W. Scotland - the Clyde,...

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