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Automatic Signal System is Tested

Date released

26 Mar 1931

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

94A

NoS ID

002922

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Automatic Signal System Is Tested. DESCRIPTION: Great Western Railway sponsor new railway device, to reconcile fast service with safety first. SHOTLIST: CU of driver in cabin talking...

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Railway signal operators’ action (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Alan Twydale, railway signal operator at Bethnal Green station in London, who talks about his intention of taking 20-minute breaks despite the union’s refusal to make the action official....

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Railway Signal

Date released

3 Dec 1951

Series name

New Pictorial

Issue no

377

NoS ID

119247

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

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Railway Signal School for the Army

Date released

28 Mar 1940

Series name

New Series Pictorial

Issue no

208

NoS ID

116566

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

SHOTLIST: 1. Various shots of men of the Royal Engineers learning about wheel changing on an engine in the locomotive sheds, and signalling in the classroom and with the help of a model railway. 14 ft. 2. VS...

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Essex - It’s Her Station

Date released

26 Oct 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1690A

NoS ID

024333

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Essex - Its Her Station. DESCRIPTION: Miss Dolly Palmer runs a railway station single-handed. Attending to the signal lamps is just one of her chores. Who issues the tickets to the...

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Signal workers dispute (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

David Kermode reports on strike-busting operations by Railtrack in an attempt to defeat the signal workers dispute. Includes interviews with John Ellis, Railtrack; John Monks, TUC; Richard Rosser, Transport...

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Signal workers step up dispute action (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Andrew Bomford reports on news signal workers in the rail dispute are to step-up their action with forty-eight hour strikes starting later in 07/94. But the disruption will last longer than two days and...

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Clapham rail crash - signalman lied, claimed BR (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Lisa Hampele reports on claims by British Rail that one of their own signalmen, Stephen Jackson, lied to millions of television viewers over the Clapham Junction train disaster. BR now admit there had been...

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Signal workers dispute - Railtrack say 59 percent of services running (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Railtrack production manager John Ellis following claims by rail bosses fifty-nine per cent of trains are running despite the seventeenth day of action by signal workers. The RMT union insist...

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Clapham rail crash - signalman lied, claimed BR (1988)

Genre

Press conference; Speech

Statement by British Rail general manager, Gordon Pettitt (read by public affairs manager, Peter Kendall) on claims that one of their own signalmen, Stephen Jackson, lied over the Clapham Junction train...

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