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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Look at Life: Volume 1 - Transport (2010)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 540 minutes), £14.40

    Fifty-four films from the LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Special Features Division Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Digitally restored from the...

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  5. 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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  6. Engineering (1974 Video)

    Director
    Michael Clarke; R K Neilson; Nick Nicholls; James Ritchie
    Producer
    Edgar Anstey; John Legard; John Shearman
    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 114 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

    Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house production and distribution system to cater for all the requirements of the various undertakings,...

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  7. British Transport Films Collection Vol. 5: Off the Beaten Track (2007)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 304 minutes), £19.99

    The fifth 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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  8. Bleacher on the Rye (2014)

    Director
    Mark Saunders
    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 28 minutes), £40.00 (Institutional rate)

    BLEACHER ON THE RYE is about the proposed redevelopment of Peckham Rye Station by Network Rail. The film shows a range of opinions from residents and local businesses who oppose the negative impact of the...

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  9. Fifty Million Years Deep (1976 Film)

    Producer
    Michael Bennett
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The ‘Jumbo’ piles beneath Cannon Street in the City of London, between which the Fleet Line tunnels run, go to a depth which represents fifty million years in time. Straight-shafted, under-reamed and...

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  10. Freedom Railway (1974 Film)

    Director
    Felix Greene
    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the building of a railroad from the coast at Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania to Lusaka in Zambia. Presents the political and economic case for the railroad illustrating the engineering problems faced and...

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