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Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit. Launched on 1 May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey - a founding...
This is a compilation of newsreel reports from the British Movietone News archive. It is a comprehensive round up of items reporting on 76 disasters, mostly from the era of steam locomotion, with causes...
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...
This documentary, composed entirely from colour archive footage, looks at the effects of the railway cuts implemented according to the recommendations in Dr Richard Beeching’s reports, The Reshaping of...
The taxpayer has been spending billions to upgrade the British rail network yet many passengers have complained of high ticket prices, overcrowded carriages and cancellations. Dispatches asked actor Richard...
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ITN filmed a series of news items abroad called ‘Roving Report’; most remain unseen since their initial broadcast. This collection brings together a number of reports...
This two-DVD set is the first of a series of films using historic instruction films made by British Transport Films in the 1950s. This is the material with which railwaymen were trained over fifty years...
Collection of four transport films about railways in the Scottish Highlands. The first, John Gray’s WEST HIGHLAND (1960) is about the last days of the steam train on the West Highland line between Glasgow...
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