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Signal Services

Date released

Feb 1938

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

55

NoS ID

349108

Story no

3 / 5

NoS synopsis: The Great Western Railway school for signal men, with model tracks, engines and signals, perfect working models of those used in real life, where signal men learn never to make mistakes.

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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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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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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

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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A Novel Railway

Date released

16 Mar 1933

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

615

NoS ID

333163

Story no

1 / 4

British Pathe synopsis: "It’s a model Clockwork Railway, perfect in scale and detail. Here’s the terminus, complete with platforms, sidings, signals, etc." M/S of man tending to his model railway -...

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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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