Learning on ScreenAdvanced Passenger Train
Series
- Series Name
- This Week In Britain
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- COI synopsis: The Advanced Passenger Train is a totally new concept in transportation. It can travel at 250 kilometres an hour round all the curves and bends of a conventional rail network. The key to success is a revolutionary new suspension system that keeps the train firmly on the rails at ultra high speed. Gail Spiro visits the Rail Research Centre in Leicestershire for a sneak preview of the fastest train of its kind in the world.
- Researcher Comments
- Includes a brief interview with the project’s research director, Prof Alan Wickens, and footage from British Transport Films’ film "E for Experimental". NB: Information drawn from the Australian version
- Keywords
- Railways; Transport; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Catalogue Cards [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 23 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 936/899
- Credits:
-
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Presenter
- Esmeralda Reyna
- Presenter
- Fernando del Paso
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Presenter
- Gail Spiro
- Cutter
- Maurice Tarling
- Director
- Patrick Wyand
- Producer
- Sylvia Eley
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- 020 7255 1444
- Fax
- 020 7580 7503
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN - Notes
- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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