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Striking Gold

Date released

Jul 1937

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

25

NoS ID

348977

Story no

2 / 7

NoS synopsis: cleaning railway engines

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Innovation on the Rails (1986 Video)

Producer

Kevin Newport

Subject

Design; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

The process of researching and developing fast trains takes time; the idea for the Advanced Passenger Train came 20 years ago. Yet business needs are changing all the time. Shot on location in Derby, and on...

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Electromagnetic Induction (1985 Video)

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Starts with a series of demonstrations showing the three electromagnetic principles on which the induction motor is based. Then uses models to explain how a linear induction motor works. The new magnetic...

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Not So Great Railway Journeys (1994 Video)

Producer

Mike Robinson

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive)

As British Rail is broken up into more than 80 new companies, railway services are grinding to a halt with more cancellations and delayed trains. Examines whether the government’s railway privatisation...

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Transportation Revolution in Scotland (1987 Video)

Producer

Michael Leonard; Janet McBain

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 45 min.

Includes footage of George Bennie’s railplane, a propeller-driven vehicle which ran along elevated track in the 1930s. Sequences of servicing a steam locomotive; time-lapse photography of a tram being...

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Railroad Renaissance

Date released

1937

Series name

The March of Time 3rd Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

352165

Story no

2 / 3

The March of Time synopsis: The new issue of the March of Time contains a topical episode entitled "Railroad Renaissance" dramatising the efforts of the American railway companies to combat the remarkable...

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Heavy Sleepers

Date released

May 1938

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

62

NoS ID

349144

Story no

1 / 5

NoS synopsis: Barges unloading timber for the making of railway sleepers followed by the seasoning yard and sawmills. The sleepers are then creosoted and chaired.

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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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Railway On New Lines

Series name

Letter From London

Issue no

389

NoS ID

325288

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Perception and Communication. Part 6: The Hixon Level Crossing Disaster of January 1968 (1971 Video)

Director

Martin Hayden

Producer

Martin Hayden

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 50 min.

Uses a railway accident at a level crossing as a history to provide actual examples of the factors affecting perception and communication, factors often similar to those that were demonstrated more generally...

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