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A compilation of two short British Transport films.
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...
Looks at two types of computer system used by British Rail for modern signalling: one for indication and control, and one for interlocking.
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...
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...
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...
Looks at the development of German railways from c. 1900.
Uses a railway accident at a level crossing as a history to provide actual examples of the factors affecting perception and communication, factors often similar to those that were demonstrated more generally...
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