Learning on ScreenNight Mail/West Highland
- Synopsis
- A compilation of two classic films on steam trains
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2004
- Year of production
- 1936 1960
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- postal services; railways; steam engines
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0
- Price
- £19.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 55 minutes
- Year
- 2005
Sections
- Title
- Night Mail
- Synopsis
- 1930s’ classic documentary showing the nightly run from London’s Euston to Glasgow of the ‘Postage Special’, an express train whose ‘passengers’ are Post Office workers sorting mail. At various railway centres on the way mail bags are received and despatched. The train also picks up or drops mail en route while travelling at high speed. Music by Benjamin Brittain, verse by W H Auden.
- Duration
- 24 mins
- Title
- West Highland
- Synopsis
- A classic 1960 BBC Scotland documentary made by John Gray about life and workings on the West Highland Railway in the last days of steam.
- Duration
- 30 mins
Production Company
- Name
BBC Scotland
- Name
GPO Film Unit
Distributor
- Name
Panamint Cinema
- cinema@panamint.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.panamint.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01505 834936
- Address
- Abercorn Schoolhouse
Whitequarries
Broxburn
West Lothian, Scotland
EH52 6PZ
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