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Looks behind the scenes at the world’s fastest train, the French TGV.
Discussion giving an insight into the design of a main structural member of the power car, demonstrating that this requires a good background knowledge of the whole project. Importance is given to both...
Looks at two types of computer system used by British Rail for modern signalling: one for indication and control, and one for interlocking.
Sequences include a railway exhibition at Norwich in 1938, the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, the Southwold Railway 1929, a day in the life of Manningtree Station in the 1970s and electrification of the...
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...
Traces the design and building of the Docklands Light Railway in the East End of London, looking at the project in terms of the hard systems. Discusses the situation posed by the decline of the London Docks...
The hard systems method is applied to the process of choosing the optimum light rail system for the area. Choices had to be made on the route, type of system, station designs etc, and to help in the...
Looks at the management of the construction of the Docklands Light Railway, and in particular how problems were handled in terms of the control model. Examines problem-solving activities from simple problems...
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.
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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