London - Goggle Box

Series

Series Name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue

Issue No.

3

Date Released

Nov 1967

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Staffordshire - Checkpoint
2. 2Nottinghamshire - J. Bacon & Sons
3. 3London - Goggle Box
4. 4Leicestershire - Vision from the Dark

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

NoS synopsis: New road-rail containers which can carry 10 tons of smokeless fuel
NCB Commentary - Here’s a new box of tricks.
At least it gives the onlookers something new to goggle at. And this is new - as on an October morning London’s Kings Cross Station sees the arrival of a British Rail freightliner carrying smokeless solid fuel in containers.
2 containers on one truck - thats 10 tons of fuel - head off towards the West Drayton Depot for distribution.
Here the containers are unloaded separately. One is tipped - gently now - into a hopper. The other is unloaded on the ground, to show how containers can be handled at yards without special facilities.
Either way, the fuel was smoothly and quickly put into bags.
Object of the exercise? To show how modern handling methods can deliver fuel by rail more quickly, more cheaply and - important to all of us - more gently, so that its journey from the coalfields will leave it undamaged into our cellars and onto our hearths.

Keywords

Railways; Road transport; Fuels

Written sources

British Film Institute Databases
Films on Coal Catalogue   1969, p.54
The National Archives COAL 32   /13 Scripts for Mining Review, 1960-1963

Credits:

Sponsor

National Coal Board

Production Co.

National Coal Board Film Unit