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  1. Maglev (1979 Film)

    Director
    Bill Mason
    Producer
    Lionel Cole
    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes an experimental vehicle using magnetic levitation for suspension.

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  2. British Transport Films Collection Volume Twelve: The Driving Force (2014)

    Subject
    Geography; History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

    Following the nationalisation of public transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1st May 1949, British Transport Films was led for 25...

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  3. Future on Rail, A (2014)

    Producer
    Edgar Anstey
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 747 minutes), £29.99

    Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1 May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey - a founding...

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  4. Fastline Films 1: Mechanical Signalling (1951)

    Subject
    Transport
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 144 minutes), £24.95

    This two-DVD set is the first of a series of films using historic instruction films made by British Transport Films in the 1950s. This is the material with which railwaymen were trained over fifty years...

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  5. West Highland (1939)

    Director
    John Gray; Charles Heath; Edward McConnell
    Subject
    History; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes), £20.41

    Collection of four transport films about railways in the Scottish Highlands. The first, John Gray’s WEST HIGHLAND (1960) is about the last days of the steam train on the West Highland line between Glasgow...

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  6. British Transport Films Collection Vol. 3: Running a Railway (2006)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 237 minutes), £19.99

    The third in the series of double DVD box sets of films from the BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION. Following the post-war thirst for visual teaching and educational entertainment and the nationalisation of...

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  7. Best of British Transport Films, The (1952)

    Subject
    Film studies; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 379 minutes), £24.99

    In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the British Transport Films in 2019, the BFI is releasing a 2-disc Blu-ray set that gathers together 21 films representing the cream of the celebrated BTF...

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  8. British Transport Films Collection Vol. 4: Reshaping British Railways (2006)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 247 minutes), £19.99

    The fourth in the series of double DVD box sets of films from the BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION. Following the post-war thirst for visual teaching and educational entertainment and the nationalisation...

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  9. 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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  10. Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film (2006)

    Director
    Geoffrey Jones
    Subject
    Film Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £14.99

    Since the 1950s, Geoffrey R. Llewellyn Jones has been making short films with an extraordinary marriage of images, music and rhythm that make him one of Britain’s true film artists. This DVD brings a...

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