Main Line Diesel Engine

Series

Series Name: Oil Review

Issue

Issue No.

Date Released

1950

Length of issue (in feet)

966

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

Subtitle - ‘A new page in railway history’.
Film User Summary - the L.M. Region’s main line diesel locomotive
BP Summary - The building and trial run of the new diesel - electric locomotives which are now hauling the famous British train ‘The Royal Scot’ between London and Glasgow.
NFA synopsis: Workshops at Rugby shown where the first mainline diesel electro locomotive is being assembled. Close up of parts. The engine is transferred to a new work-shop and construction starts. The engine is dropped into its frame. Its bulkhead, body sides and roof are fitted on. The new locomotive, the Royal Scot, moves out of the workshop. Shots of the Royal Scot on its trial run from Euston to Glasgow - the driver at the controls of a steam train is passed, close up of the front, the train in the station.

Keywords

Vehicles; Railways; Transport; Industry and manufacture

Written sources

Viewing Copy - bfi
National Film Archive Catalogue Used for synopsis
Film User Vol.4 No.43 May 1950, p299.
British Petroleum brochures Issue Number 1
BP Video Library Tape database

Credits:

Sponsor: Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Production Co.: Greenpark Productions Ltd.
Producer: Humphrey Swingler

Length of story (in feet)

312

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