Learning on ScreenBritain’s Railways at War
- Synopsis
- A comprehensive collection of original archive documentaries covering the wartime role of railways on the British Home Front, featuring a variety of period steam locomotives and dealing with a variety of subjects, ranging from recycling scrap metal, safety procedures, the work done by women on the railways, the importance of economising during wartime and the role played by British railways in the war effort, including the D-Day landings and the Dunkirk evacuation.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2012
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- Home Front; railways; transport; war; World War II; rail travel
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £19.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 201 minutes
- Year
- 2012
Sections
- Title
- Newspaper Train
- Synopsis
- Even during the worst air-raids of the Blitz, with the railways as a prime Luftwaffe target, the railways never failed to transport London printed newspapers to the provinces.
- Duration
- 6 mins
- Title
- Shunter Black’s Night Off
- Synopsis
- Shunter Joe Black extinguishes a burning explosives truck through a meticulous and delicate manoeuvre across the points of a goods yard to the water tower.
- Duration
- 7 mins
- Title
- Army Lays the Rails, The
- Synopsis
- Film about the tracklaying and railway maintenance operations of the Royal Engineers including footage of an armoured train and the firing of the railway mounted ‘Boche Buster’ gun.
- Duration
- 9 mins
- Title
- Decontamination and Repairs to Damaged Track
- Synopsis
- The equipment, precautions and procedures followed by a Southern Railway anti-gas team during a simulated gas attack on railway lines near West Hoathly, Sussex
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Title
- Salving Our Scrap
- Synopsis
- An anti-waste, pro-recycling film aimed at Southern Railway employees.
- Duration
- 13 mins
- Title
- Bundles for Berlin
- Synopsis
- A celebration of the contribution of female employees across the Southern Railway; from locomotive cleaning and ticket collecting to light engineering and munitions manufacture in the railway workshops.
- Duration
- 13 mins
- Title
- Burning Question, The
- Synopsis
- A Southern Railway film on importance of fuel economy across the company including in the efficient and economic use of coal in the firing of locomotives.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Gang Warily
- Synopsis
- A dramatised illustration of the importance of adhering to general working safety practices on the Southern Railway.
- Duration
- 9 mins
- Title
- Carrying the Load
- Synopsis
- A retrospective celebration of the contribution made by Britain’s Railways to allied victory in the transportation of casualties, troops, evacuees, workers, raw materials and munitions
- Duration
- 24 mins
- Title
- Service for the Services
- Synopsis
- The Southern Railway’s support of the armed services with reference to the Dunkirk evacuation, the manufacture of D-Day equipment and the transportation of locomotives post D-Day between Dover and Calais.
- Duration
- 29 mins
- Title
- Women at War
- Synopsis
- A survey of the work of women on the Great Western Railway during the war including as train guards and shunter drivers and in rolling stock and permanent way maintenance.
- Duration
- 32 mins
- Title
- Peep Behind the Scenes
- Synopsis
- A film about the special manufacturing work carried out by the railway workshops of the Southern Railway including mobile workshops, hospital trains, D-Day landing craft and gliders.
- Duration
- 29 mins
Distributor
Available from retail outlets
- Name
SfE Ltd
- sfe@ctad.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.sfe.co.uk/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 0117 3115 276
- Address
- 1 Portland Square
Bristol
BS2 8RR
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