How the Railway Runs

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1707

Date Released

19 Feb 1962

Date submitted

15 Feb 1962

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Duke in South America
2. 2Herrings by the Million
3. 3How the Railway Runs
4. 4Sound of the Future
5. 5Beauty for the Boys

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: How the Railways Run. DESCRIPTION: Mr Marples, Minister of Transport, presented Dr Beeching and his deputy, Sir Philip Warter to the Queen who visited the Eastern Region of British Railways. Her Majesty went from Liverpool Street Station to Stratford, and the first stop was to look at diesel engines at the maintenance depot. Then, to the control tower at the Temple Mills Marshalling Yard. During the visit, the Queen accepted a model engine for the Prince of Wales. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MS the Queen meets Mr Marples. MS crowd. MS the Queen gets on train (2 shots) train pulls out. MS Queen goes in train. MCU the Queen. GV control tower. MS Queen in control tower. MS wagon. MS railway lines. MCU Queen and men. MS trucks. MS Queen receives model train (2 shots).

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government

Locations

United Kingdom

Footage sources

Pathe

Card file number

83922

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

80

Story extras:

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