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  1. Draught-Horses of Progress (1979 Film)

    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at the development of German railways from c. 1900.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. End of Steam, The: The Story of Dr Beeching’s Railway Cuts (2012)

    Subject
    History; Transport
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £11.99

    This documentary, composed entirely from colour archive footage, looks at the effects of the railway cuts implemented according to the recommendations in Dr Richard Beeching’s reports, The Reshaping of...

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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