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  1. TOWARDS ‘PEACE IN INDUSTRY’

    Date released
    4 Jul 1927
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1699
    NoS ID
    386527
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: London’s Lord Mayor entertains railway officials and 1,100 railway workers’ representatives at Mansion House

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  2. Clearing Railway Points and Flashing Trains

    Date released
    18 Feb 1963
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    425
    NoS ID
    121345
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Some people heave snow about out of sheer exuberance - some, like these railway workers, because the job’s just got to be done. Teeth-chattering work it is, but they keep the trains...

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  3. Women Railway Workers

    Date released
    11 Dec 1944
    Series name
    War Pictorial News
    Issue no
    188
    NoS ID
    156353
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Women seen doing all jobs necessary to keep the railways running - heaving coke, manning the signal box, collecting tickets at the barrier. The importance of railways in keeping the fighters supplied.

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  4. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Railways Find Women’s Help Invaluable

    Date released
    7 May 1942
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    674A
    NoS ID
    012251
    Story no
    5 / 8

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Women Railway Workers. DESCRIPTION: Women are doing many of the jobs on the railways, working signals and maintenance work. SHOTLIST: 1. Gang of women are seen clearing a Pacific type...

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  5. Fatal Train Smash. The Overturned Engine and Broken Carriages of the Riviera Express Which Jumped the Rails Near Lyons.

    Date released
    13 Mar 1924
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    1354
    NoS ID
    079662
    Story no
    5 / 5

    SHOTLIST: MLV pan overturned engine and carriage off the rails. 2 shots wreckage, gendarme and workmen (LVs). MLV pan train on its side. MV part of train, pan to railway (?) workers and man in bowler.

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  6. Victory in Europe

    Date released
    30 Apr 1945
    Series name
    War Pictorial News
    Issue no
    208A
    NoS ID
    156395
    Story no
    1 / 3

    This review of events leading up to victory in Europe is dedicated to those who made it possible, with appropriate footage of each: newscasters and broadcasters, cameramen, sailors and marines, merchant...

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  7. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: South Africa’s Record War Rally

    Date released
    9 Aug 1943
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    740
    NoS ID
    012789
    Story no
    3 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: South Africa’s War Rally. DESCRIPTION: Veterans of the Boer War took part in a Recruiting Parade in Johannesburg. Field Marshal Smuts took the salute at Turfonntein Racecourse....

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  8. Rail Crash

    Date released
    24 Nov 1955
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1381A
    NoS ID
    020534
    Story no
    1 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Rail Crash at Didcot. DESCRIPTION: An excursion train from Wales was derailed at Didcot, Berks. Immediate fatalities were ten and the number of injured about one hundred. Nearly three...

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  9. Fed-Wide Flashes

    Series name
    Rhodesian Spotlight
    Issue no
    32
    NoS ID
    351943
    Story no
    2 / 4

    Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: The opening of Blantyre’s new air terminal buildings, the arrival of Railway workers from Greece, the Commission for Technical Co-Operation in African South of the Sahara meet...

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  10. High Wide And Faster

    Date released
    1964
    Series name
    Look At Life
    Issue no
    244
    NoS ID
    350165
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: A survey of some current developments in road and rail transport engineering in Britain, with some information on new port facilities. Views of the M6 Motorway viaduct at Gathurst, Lancs....

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