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Great British Railway Journeys: Series 1-4

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2784 minutes), £32.50

In this 19-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways. Armed with his copy of George Bradshaw’s famous railway handbook, he retraces seventeen...

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Great British Railway Journeys: Series 5-8

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2175 minutes), £35.99

In this 15-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways. Armed with his copy of George Bradshaw’s famous railway handbook, he retraces seventeen...

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Gabions for Roads and Railways (1972 Film, Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows how gabions can be used for a variety of structures in road and railway works.

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Railways of the Great War

aka: Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 minutes), £3.99

Five part series, in which Conservative politician Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the Great War by discovering the central role the railways played in securing victory, repatriating the dead and...

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Rail Against Privatisation

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 60 minutes), £8.00

A film of the two-week mobile demonstration from Glasgow to London by 25 RMT railways workers in the run-up to the May 2005 General Election. The marchers travelled through 14 cities, leafleting the public...

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North British / Today and Every Day

Director

Cecil H. Williamson; E. J. Fancy; John S., Jr. Abbott; Edward Cook; Frank Phillips

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 77 minutes), £20.41

TODAY AND EVERY DAY (1947) covers the history of Britain’s railways, and gives a contemporary account of all aspects of operations on the railway system. It features some of the notable express trains of...

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Hundred Years Underground, A (1963 Film)

Director

John Rowdon

Producer

Edgar Anstey; John Shearman

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The development of the London Underground, from the steam trains on the Metropolitan Line in 1883 to the Victoria Line. The film was made for showing on BBC Television to mark the centenary of underground...

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From Semaphore to Coloured Light (1986 Video)

Director

Roger T Lambert

Subject

Archaeology; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 20 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclusive)

Details the change in the early 1980s from semaphore signals to coloured light signals on British Rail’s remote controlled communication system in the Southampton area.

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Bowes Line (1975 Video)

Director

Murray Martin

Producer

Stafford Lindsley

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (24 minutes), £10.00 (+p&p)

A record of the last working days of the self-acting incline railway built by Stephenson in 1827 to carry coal across the Durham hills to the Tyne. The film concerns the men who worked the line and follows...

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London Underground, The (1975 Video)

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 23 min., 1999 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows three stations designed by Charles Holden for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line - Cockfosters, Oakwood and Southgate. They are seen as structures perfectliy fitted for their function and also as...

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