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Railway History
ITN Roving Report Railways Of The World The 1960s
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 | In the late 1950s and early 1960s, ITN filmed a series of news items abroad called 'Roving Report'; most have never been seen since their initial broadcast. The period covered by this DVD was a time of intense transition for railways the world over. From in-depth studies of rail systems in Europe to unique and unusual services around the globe - this is ITN ROVING REPORT : RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD : The 1960sOther People’s Railways (1963, 13 mins)
With the Beeching Report, Britain was faced with the question of modernisation and rationalisation of its extensive railway network. Roving Report made a comparative analysis of how different countries rail networks coped with the changes in technology and in demand for their services. In France, we board the Mistral Express and, in Japan, the 'Dream Train'. An in depth look at Holland, where over two-thirds of its stations were shut, concludes the overview.
French Railways (1968, 18 mins)
An in depth study of the French Railways, following the journey of the fastest electric train of the day, Le Mistral, on its journey from Paris to Dijon. With interviews with staff and English passengers, we are treated to a fascinating comparison with British Rail.
The Tyrol – With a Twist (1963, 13 mins)
Michael Barlsey journeys from Victoria Station to the Austrian ski slopes via the unusual and quirky “Snow Sing” train service. With loud music piped into the compartments and a dance carriage where passengers “do the twist” on board all day and night, this is a trip not to be forgotten!
Railway To The Moon (1961, 15 mins)
A fascinating study of the astonishing railway in Peru that climbs the Andes mountains, built in the late 19th Century. At its peak the railway is 3.5 miles above sea level, leading to a doctor on board having to give oxygen to its passengers. With amazing scenery from Lima and the mountains, we follow the whole extraordinary journey. BONUS FEATURES
Mount Carmel By Underground - An Excerpt (1960, 3 mins)
A look at a trip on the only underground service in the Middle East, travelling up and down Mount Carmel.
Day Trip To Dieppe - An Excerpt (1960, 8 mins)
A wide range of characters take a day trip to France starting with a cup of tea and ending, more often than not, fast asleep on the return journey!
Easter Excursions (1961, 15 mins)
A look at the various options for an Easter trip to the continent, ranging from boats and trains to the rather unusual practice of flying your car over on an 'airbridge' chartered flight!
Journey Through Malaya - An Excerpt (1961, 4 mins)
Footage of the construction of a new rail system to help transport goods from mining operations in very difficult conditions in Malaya.
Whisky Train (1964, 4 mins)
A report from the Scottish Highlands following the transport of whisky barrels by train to the bottling plants. Such trains had become increasingly vulnerable to theft!
TOTAL RUNNING TIME - 91 Mins.
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Railway History
Scottish Express
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| 1946, 33 mins.The film is about the preparation and operation of the immediate post-war Scottish Express LNER service drawn by A4 class steam locomotive 4489 on its 10am run from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley with her driver and fireman Tom and Fred. Shot from the lineside, on board the train and in the steam engine's cab during the run, the film also shows the construction of steam engines at the LNER's Doncaster works and visits the company's coachworks at York. Other LNER steam locomtives featured are 4485 'Webster', 4492, 4599, 4464 'Britten', 4493 NE and 4465. Bonus Feature - Going North (1945, 24 mins) An archive travelogue journeying to Scotland from the English Lake District via Cumberland and Westmorland. We see sheep farming, traditional salmon fishing, Princes Street in Edinburgh, Berwick Castle, Inverness, a paddle steamer on a loch and hear an evocative soundtrack of Scottish Folk Songs including Over the Sea to Skye, The Skye Boat Song, Coming Through the Rye and Loch Lomond. Bonus Feature : An Excerpt from 'Beautiful Trossachs' (1938, 10 mins)
This is an extract from a travelogue made for the LMS showing The Trossachs in central Scotland. Presenting a combination of lochs, woods, mountains, glens, picturesque villages and hills, the film shows Loch Katrine and Lomond from a tourists perspective following the paddle steamers that ply their trade there. Also seen are the Four in hand horse-drawn coaches transporting tourists from one loch to the other. TOTAL RUNNING TIME - 67 Mins.
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Railway History
British Steam Railway Disasters 1913 - 1967
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British Steam Railway Disasters is the definitive DVD collection of newsreel reports covering no fewer than 55 incidents from the steam era between 1913 and 1967 including among them the most notorious at Bourne End (1945), Lewisham (1957), South Croydon (1947), Goswick (1947), Hither Green (1967), Castlecary (1937) and Darlington (1928). Also included is a specially made 15 minute analysis of the greatest tragedy of all - the multiple crash at Harrow And Wealdstone in 1952 which features much rare footage including previously unseen film rushes. Throughout, British Steam Railway Disasters investigates the common causes of railway accidents with a view to the lessons learnt from; Driver Error, Excessive Speed, Poor Visibility In Fog, Signals Passed At Danger, Signalling Errors, Road Vehicle Collisions, Equipment Failure, Rolling Stock Instability and Track Defects.
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Railway History
British Railways - Beeching and Beyond 1962 - 1984
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The definitive archive-film led history of the modernisation and rationalistion of Britain's nationalised rail network.With Colin Divall - Professor of Railway Studies and Head of the Institute Of Railway Studies And Transport History at York University and the National Railway Museum. The watershed year for Britain's railways came in 1963 with the appointment of Dr. Richard Beeching to the British Railways Board and the publication of his controversial 'Beeching Plan'; its impact and his legacy on the railways is investigated in detail here. Beeching famously brought about widespread railway line closures and the end of steam locomotion but was also responsible for pioneering and revenue-generating initiatives like the formation of the Inter-City network, West Coast Mainline Electrification, 'Merry-Go-Round' coal trains and the 'Freightliner' system. The story of this controversial period is told in defi nitive detail with archive film, newsreels and testimony and interviews with both railwaymen and historians. Locomotives featured include Gresley 'A4' Pacifi cs, 4472 Flying Scotsman, Deltics, Class 47 and 50 Diesel - Electrics, E3001 - Electric Loco, the HS4000 Kestrel experimental loco, Class 87 electrics, APT, HST and the Railbus. TOPICS INCLUDE:
* The Deltic diesel-electric locomotive
* Dr. Beeching and his 'Beeching Plan'
* The last years of Steam, including the End Of Steam on the Western Region, the Southern Region and on the Somerset & Dorset Line
* Railways In Scotland - the Forth Bridge, Edinburgh Waverley and the A4's
* Freight - Motorail, Freightliner, Parcels and Mail By Rail
* West Coast Main Line Electrification
* BR Shipping Services - Sealink Car Ferries and Seaspeed Hovercraft.
* APT - The Advanced Passenger Train and HST - The High Speed Train INTERVIEWEES INCLUDE:
* Alan Pegler OBE - railway preservation pioneer and saviour of the Flying Scotsman
* Jim Rees of the National Railway Museum
* Steam-era engine drivers John Fletcher, Fred Andrews and Ted Abear
* Chris Green, Managing Director of B.R. Inter-City. Catalogue Number: SN6625
Classification: Exempt
Picture: 1:33:1 / Black and White / Colour
Subtitles: None
Time: 169 mins approx
Barcode: 5027626662547
Number of Discs: 1
Sound: Mono / English
Region: 0 / PAL
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Railway History
British Railways - The Early Years 1948 - 1961
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The definitive archive-film led history of the early years of Britain's nationalised rail network.With Colin Divall - Professor of Railway Studies and Head of the Institute Of Railway Studies And Transport History at York University and the National Railway Museum. Post-War, the 'Big Four' Railway companies struggled with a backlog of maintenance of permanent way, engines and rolling stock borne of the under-investment and acute demands made on them during the Second World War. Nationalisation as 'British Railways' came in 1948 and brought with it steam locomotive standardisation and the beginnings of the wholesale transition to diesel and electric traction as outlined in the 1955 Modernisation Plan. The story of this time of intense and controversial change is told in definitive detail with archive fi lm, period newsreels and testimony and interviews with both railwaymen and railway historians. Among the locomotives featured are the A4 Pacifi c Class, the First diesel-electric loco no. 10000, the BR standard Britannia class, 9F class 'Evening Star', the Deltic prototype, the Peak D1, D.M.U's, Warships, Westerns, the Blue Pullman and the Glasgow Blue Electrics. TOPICS INCLUDE:
[] The formation of the British Transport Commission
[] A review of post-nationalisation motive power and the locomotive trials
[] An overview of the resulting BR Standard Class steam locomotives
[] The 1955 'Modernisation Plan'
[] First generation diesel-electric locomotives.
[] The Western Region diesel-hydraulics
[] The relative merits of Steam and Diesel traction
[] Various suburban electrification schemes
[] Freight, marshalling yards, good depots, mail trains, cars by rail and many more... INTERVIEWEES INCLUDE:
[] Alan Pegler OBE - railway preservation pioneer and saviour of the Flying Scotsman
[] Jim Rees of the National Railway Museum
[] Engine drivers of the mainline steam era John Fletcher and Ted Abear. Catalogue Number: SN6610
Time: 163 mins approx
Region: 0 / PAL
Subtitles: None
Sound: Mono / English
Picture: 1:33:1 / Black and White / Colour
Number of Discs: 1
Classification: E
Barcode: 5027626661045
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Railway History
Steam in the Sixties
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Kenneth Oldham MBE and his 16mm camera bore witness to a period of great change on British Railways that included the cessation of scheduled steam services. In this, steam's final decade, he filmed a great many working steam types including an impressive array of mainline steam express classes: ex-S.R. 'Merchant Navy' and 'West Country'/ 'Battle Of Britain' Class Pacifics, B.R. Standard Class 7 'Britannia's', ex-LNER Gresley-designed A1s, A3 'Pacifics' (including Flying Scotsman) and A4 'Pacifics' (including Mallard) as well as Black 5s, Green Arrow V2s and ex-Great Western Castles, Manors and Halls. Kenneth also filmed one-off rarities such as 'Gordon Highlander' and the last operating single, the Caledonian Railway 'No.123'.The official 'Steam Ban' provided the impetus for a flurry of privately organised steam-hauled rail tours. The Flying Scotsman was the locomotive of choice for a great many of those featured, including the 'Great Central Tour', the 'Moorlands Special' and the 'Pegler Pullman'. Also covered are a great many other named tours, the highlights of which are 'The Solway Ranger Rail Tour', 'The Scottish Lowlander Tour', 'The Three Summit Tour', 'The Scarborough Limited' and the Gresley Society's 'London North Eastern Flier' as well as many 'final runs' of specific loco classes and 'Farewell To Steam' specials. Other points of interest include shots at the Dillicar water troughs, scenes on the now defunct Ripon to Northallerton line and the old North British Line at Silloth. Making this programme the definitive visual history of the last decade of mainline steam, many original newsreel stories are also interspersed within the chronology, giving unique insights into locomotives such as the 'Dominion Of Canada', 'Stepney', 'Clun Castle', 'Evening Star' and 'Invincible' - an industrial tank engine seen at work on the now dismantled Royal Aircraft Establishment railway line, which ran through the streets of Farnborough. Catalogue Number: SN6550
Classification: Exempt
Picture: 1.33:1 / Colour / Black and White
Subtitles: None
Time: 119 mins approx
Barcode: 5027626655044
Number of Discs: 1
Sound: Mono / English
Region: 0 / PAL
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Railway History
Thoroughbreds of Steam
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From the final years of the steam locomotive-hauled rail services of the 1960s, through the pioneering enthusiast's specials and mainline steam excursions of the 1970s and 1980s, Kenneth Oldham MBE chronicled a time of great transition for the railways of Britain including the fledgling days of the railway line preservation movement. Kenneth travelled around Britain to film on 16mm Colour stock some of the most dramatic working steam locations, among them Hellifield, Seahouses, Tyseley and Rainhill as well as Ribblehead, Ais Gill and Dent Head Viaduct on the then threatened Settle and Carlisle line.BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES FEATURED INCLUDE:
Green Arrow
* The Duke Of Gloucester
* The Flying Scotsman
* Mallard
* Streamlined Pacifics
* The Duchess Of Hamilton
* Unrebuilt Bulleid Pacifics
* Blue Peter
Black Fives
* City Of Truro
* GWR Castle and King Classes
* SR Lord Nelson and Maunsell Classes Catalogue Number: SN6535
Classification: Exempt
Picture: 1.33:1 / Colour
Subtitles: None
Time: 113 mins approx
Barcode: 5027626653545
Number of Discs: 1
Sound: Mono / English
Region: 0 / PAL
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Railway History
Great British Steam Railway Galas & Anniversaries -1925-1980
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A chronology of the very best British Steam Railway Galas and Anniversaries of the 20th Century, including:1925 Stockton and Darlington Railway Centenary
1927 Conway Bridge Centenary
1930 Liverpool & Manchester Railway Centenary
1937 History in Trains
1938 L.M.S. Centenary
1938 Travelling Post Office Centenary
1956 Centenary of the Caterham Railway
1956 Centenary of the Mid-Kent and West End & Crystal Palace Railways
1959 Portsmouth Direct Line Centenary
1967 Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Centenary
1969/70/73 Tyseley Railway Centre Open Days
1975 Rail 150 Cavalcade, Shildon
1976 Bulmers Steam Centre Open Day
1979 Paddington Station 125th Anniversary
1980 Rocket 150, Rainhill SPECIAL FEATURES:
1962 Centenary Run of the 'Flying Scotsman' Train Service (2 mins)
1967 A Day At Crewe Motive Power Depot (4 mins)
1993 25th Anniversary Of the End Of Steam On British Rail (7 mins)
2000 175th Anniversary Of Steam Gala,North Yorkshire Moors Railway (16 mins)
Catalogue Number: 9971018
Classification: E
Picture: 1:33:1 / Colour / Black and White
Subtitles: None
Time: 97 mins
Barcode: 5027626101848
Number of Discs: 1
Sound: Mono / English
Region: 0 / PAL
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Railway History
Wrecker, The
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A demented crook organises a series of deliberate train crashes to discredit the railways in favour of a rival bus company. Filmed in 1928 on the soon to be abandoned Basingstoke to Alton branch line and making extensive use of many other Southern Railway locations, The Wrecker contains the most spectacular staged steam locomotive crash in the history of British Film recorded by no fewer than 22 cameras. This newly restored version features an all-new score composed by world renowned silent film composer Neil Brand.BONUS FEATURES:
THE WRECKER - Abridged 9.5mm Gauge Vintage Home-Movie Version With Piano Accompaniment by Neil Brand. 14 mins VINTAGE CINE KODAK SERVICES TRAILER featuring 'THE WRECKER' With Piano Accompaniment by Neil Brand. 1 min FEATURETTE - SHOOTING 'THE WRECKER'
Presented by Martin Dean at the present day site of the staged crash. 5 mins FEATURETTE - WALKING THE LINE
An exploration of the remains of Basingstoke And Alton Light Railway track formations with Martin Dean. 16 mins FEATURETTE - COMPOSING FOR THE WRECKER
A richly illustrated interview with composer Neil Brand. 20 mins DERAILMENT - 1944
An archive U.S. Army training exercise filmed on the Claiborne - Polk Military Railroad in 1944. In wartime the sabotage of enemy trains that transported the men and munitions of war was of utmost tactical urgency. 8 mins IOWA STATE FAIR STAGED RAIL CRASH - 1932 With Piano Accompaniment By Neil Brand. 1 min MID-HANTS RAILWAY : A LINE PRESERVED - 5 mins iMPRESSIONS OF A TRAIN WRECK : KOREA 1952 - 4 mins. Catalogue Number: 9971017
Time: 90 mins
Region: 0 / PAL
Subtitles: None
Sound: Mono / English
Picture: 4:3 / Black and white
Number of Discs: 1
Classification: U
Barcode: 5027626101749
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