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  1. Railway On New Lines

    Series name
    Letter From London
    Issue no
    389
    NoS ID
    325288

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  2. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    27 Aug 1928
    Series name
    British Screen Tatler
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    330295
    Story no
    2 / 5

    NoS synopsis: express engines being filled with coal.

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  3. Railroad Renaissance

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 3rd Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352165
    Story no
    2 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: The new issue of the March of Time contains a topical episode entitled "Railroad Renaissance" dramatising the efforts of the American railway companies to combat the remarkable...

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  4. Striking Gold

    Date released
    Jul 1937
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    25
    NoS ID
    348977
    Story no
    2 / 7

    NoS synopsis: cleaning railway engines

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  5. Signal Services

    Date released
    Feb 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    55
    NoS ID
    349108
    Story no
    3 / 5

    NoS synopsis: The Great Western Railway school for signal men, with model tracks, engines and signals, perfect working models of those used in real life, where signal men learn never to make mistakes.

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  6. Heavy Sleepers

    Date released
    May 1938
    Series name
    Ace Cinemagazine
    Issue no
    62
    NoS ID
    349144
    Story no
    1 / 5

    NoS synopsis: Barges unloading timber for the making of railway sleepers followed by the seasoning yard and sawmills. The sleepers are then creosoted and chaired.

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  7. Railways Today

    Date released
    Jan 1948
    Series name
    The March of Time 13th Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352076
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: In the United States, says the film, though railways are carrying more traffic than ever before, their future is not bright. For years their financial position has been...

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  8. Night Shift

    Date released
    Feb 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 2nd Year
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    345503
    Story no
    2 / 4

    BFI synopsis: night shift underground at Mainsforth Colliery, Durham, coupled with railway night journey from Kings Cross to Newcastle.

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  9. (Untitled record)

    Date released
    12 Mar 1949
    Series name
    How, What and Why
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    353227
    Story no
    3 / 3

    NoS synopsis: how trains are signalled

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  10. Rhondda Gateway

    Date released
    Sep 1949
    Series name
    Mining Review 3rd Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    345625
    Story no
    3 / 4

    BFI Summary - Shunting yard at Pontypridd. BFI synopsis: The shunting yard at Hopkinstown, and the forty trains of coal which pass through it daily taking coal from the Rhondda valley to the docks at Cardiff.

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