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This archive film was originally published on two VHS videocassettes as separate programmes, volume one for steam-related newsreels and volume two for modern traction, these have now been put together onto one DVD.

Volume 1 STEAM

EARLY NEWSREELS

Corris Railway/Puffing Billy 1926

Leek and Manifold Light Rly 1927

Speed in 3 Elements 1932

Royal Scot tour in USA 1933

The Cheltenham Flyer 1934

Silver Jubilee Inauguration 1935

Crash: Swanley 1937

Coronation Scot 1937

WORLD WAR 2 AND AFTER

Building Austerities 1943

Oil Firing Experiment 1946

First Post-war Easter 1946

Reopening of the RHDR 1946

Arctic Winter snow 1947

BR Nationalisation 1948

Tavern on a Train 1949

Princess Elizabeth 1950

Doncaster Loc Spotters 1951

CRASHES

Bourne End 1945

Harrow & Wealdstone 1952

Sutton Coldfield 1955

Rugby 1955

Didcot 1955

Welwyn 1957

Lewisham 1957

END OF STEAM

Southwold Line Closes 1929

Brill (Met) Closes 1935

Last Crewe-built Loco 1958

Longmoor Closes 1959

Last Swindon-built Loco 1960

Locos Scrapped Swindon 1961

Bluebell Closure Special 1963

Last BR Steam Paddington 1965

Last RAE Steam Farnborough 1967

Severn Bridge Demolition 1967

Last BR Horse Newmarket 1967

End of Steam Swindon 1968

PRESERVATION

Painting the Forth Bridge 1927

Ffestiniog Centenary 1963

Reopening Welshpool 1963

Flying Scotsman - Pegler 1963

Flying Scotsman* McAlpine 1968

Volume 2 MODERN

INNOVATIONS

1932 Oil/Electric Express Hamburg

1933 First Streamlined Diesel Newcastle

1936 Tube anti-noise experiments

1936 New Motor Railcar

1941 LNER electric locomotive 6701

1947 LMS Diesel 10000 at Euston

1949 Double deck train Charing Cross

1951 Rubber-tyred Diesel Train

1952/58 Monorail Trials Cologne

1963 Railmobile Motor car on rails

1964 XP64 BR New coaching stock

1967 Pacerailer Droxford Branch

1967 Railway Technical Centre Derby

OPENINGS AND CLOSURES

1932 Metropolitan Stanmore extension

1933 London/Brighton electrification

1938 New York Elevated railway to go

1946/47 Central Line tube extensions

1960 Swansea & Mumbles Tram closure

1961 It's Her Station - Althorne Essex

1962 Only Stops For Her Gt Longstone

1963 London Underground Centenary

1968 Victoria tube trials & opening

1968 HM the Queen opens Euston Stn

1972 Brighton Belle Pullman ends

MODERNISATION

1955 Deltic First Service Lime Street

1956 New Swindon Inter-City DMU

1957 D8200 diesel on show at Euston

1958 D600 Active in service Paddington

1960 Blue Pullman out of Marylebone

1965 Southport relics/New Class 310

1966 WCML electrics/M&SE Mod Rly

1968 Kestrel HS4000 at Marylebone

1973 4 PEP EMU Waterloo (which became Class 313/314/315/507/508 in production series)

ACCIDENTS

1938 Charing Cross Underground crash

1946 Northwood (Met) & Lichfield

1947 South Croydon electrics collision

1961 Runaway DMU at Royton Lancs

1967 Hither Green DEMU derailment

HIGH SPEED

1972 Advanced Passenger Train*

1973 Hovertrain Earith Cambs*

1973 HST Prototype London/Darlington

1976 IC125 inaugural run to Cardiff*

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Narrated by: John Huntley
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Running Time: 120-mins (2hr 0min)) , Colour & Black & White
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Volume One comes mainly from the 1960s and shows all sorts of diesel-hauled trains in action. There are also electrics going right back to the 1930s, Underground trains, 1960s AC electrics, feature items and much much more.

Volume Two is 100% in colour and features over 150 separate shots taken by British Transport Films but once again never actually used. The majority consists of magnificent runbys from the "pre-blue" era with further classic material from the late 1960s and the early '70s.

This is two whole hours of the very best quality motion pictures ever taken of the BR modernisation period.

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Divided into four main categories, these hitherto unseen sequences show all kinds of nostalgic action from the late 1950s all the way through to the early 1970s.

Diesel: A classic mix of first generation diesel locomotives in both green and blue liveries filmed in a wide variety of locations throughout Britain. Gems include Green 47s, Peaks, Warships, Deltics, DMUs etc.

Electric: Electric Multiple Units in early and late liveries from various BR regions, along with blue AC locomotives on the WCML. Gems include green Nelson EMUs and Hastings DEMUs (included in this section along with EMUs in the same location).

Underground: For tube lovers there are shots of red 1920's ‘standard’ stock on the Central line as well as blue examples on the Isle of Wight. Red 1938 stock, silver and red District line stock are further gems!

Driving cab sequences: Film shot from the drivers’ cabs, showing various lines in the good old days of semaphore signals, goods yards and sidings and even sets of water troughs! Half a dozen sequences show parts of the GCR line, including High Wycombe as well as entering the stations at Thame and Southampton Central.

All sixty minutes of footage included within this DVD were filmed on 35mm cinema-standard film in glorious colour. Not only will you SEE the trains but you will HEAR them too - especiallly as you can turn the commentary off if you like. (menu option).

Running time 60 minutes

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Filmed by/when: 1930s to 1970s
Narrated by: Richard Bath; Written by Peter Middleton
First published on DVD: 2007
Screen aspect ratio: 4:3 SD
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Running Time: 69-mins (1hr 0min)

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This series sees TV legend Chris Tarrant embark on turbulent adventures as he travels around the globe to experience the world's most extreme trains. While en route, Chris finds himself stuck in the heart of an African jungle, traversing the Australian Outback and exploring the Monsoon Coast of India; all by some of the most spectacular railways on the globe.

Episode One - Congo's Jungle Railway

Chris heads to West Africa to experience the colonial Jungle Railway. Connecting Brazzaville on the Congo River to the coast, this 310-mile route remains a vital lifeline for both people and freight in a country with few roads and dense, impenetrable jungle.

Episode Two - Australia's Outback Railway

Taking on the 2,000 mile-long Adelaide to Darwin Railway, Chris crosses the desolation of the Australian Outback on a route known as 'The Ghan Line.' Dating back to the 1870s, the line took over 100 years to complete and today the original, abandoned sections of the line pass through deserted towns and by abandoned railway relics.

Episode Three - India's Monsoon Railway

For his final excursion, Chris ventures between Mumbai and Mangalore via the infamous Konkan railway. Battling monsoons and treacherous terrain, Chris explores why, despite 40,000 miles of track built in India by the British Empire, they steered clear of this perilous route.

As shown on Channel Five.

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BBC Bargain Hunt's Charlie Ross takes a detailed look around the Late Sir William McAlpine's full-size railway and museum, built in his own back yard. Having been acquired over five decades, Sir William's collection is truly massive.

The film starts at the beginning of the year when the ex-BR class 03 diesel shunter is started up. There's a lot of steam action too, with the resident 0-6-0 saddle tank engine, seen charging up and down the incredible 1 in 14 gradient of the hill line on training and public open days.

Charlie takes a look around the extensive museum, containing a myriad of railway artefacts. He's shown inside the two royal coaches, the signal boxes, the O gauge model railways and the main station building, re-erected here from Somersham in Cambridgeshire.

Sir William's widow, Lady Judy McAlpine tells us about her late husband's insatiable enthusiasm. There's so much to see and appreciate in this unique private railway.

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Narrated by: Charlie Ross (BBC Bargain Hunt)
Written by: Peter Middleton
First published on DVD: January 2023
Screen aspect ratio: 4:3 & 16:9 SD/HD
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Number of discs: 1 DVD
Media Format: DVD
Origination: AV/DV

Running Time: 62-mins (1hr 2min) , Colour
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This programme follows the steam learning curve through the eyes of Arfon Haines Davies. Arfon spent a week on the Great Central Railway finding out everything a trainee footplate member needs to know. Starting at the bottom, just as a real trainee would have done on BR, Arfon first becomes a cleaner then gradually progresses up the ladder with ex-Fireman Ray Martin teaching him the art of firing.

Ex-BR Driver Bill Gwilt then takes over to explain how to oil and prepare the loco followed by how to drive. Arfon then takes the controls of Clun Castle in charge of a seven coach "express" running from Loughborough Central to Rothley.

If you have ever wondered how a steam engine works or how they are maintained or driven, this best selling video is for you.

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Narrated by: Arfon Haines Davies
First published on DVD: 1993
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Running Time: 92-mins (1hr 32min) , Colour
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Presented by John Huntley. (100% colour) 48 minutes

Look at Lifes were released on a weekly basis and shown in Odeon cinemas up and down the country. Ultimately over 500 films were produced, all of them shot on 35mm film and in colour.

In his last programme for Video 125, film historian John Huntley presents 5 films from the series, all of which feature the railways of the time - a time of great change, when steam was rapidly being replaced by diesel.

The five films featured are:

LETTING OFF STEAM (1959) : Centenary London to Portsmouth line, Evening Star, New class 40 D202, Stratford class 31 D5522, Bristolian still steam hauled, Woodhead Tunnel Route, Wiring the Eastern Region, Driver’s training school, Prototype Deltic in action, Long welded rails at Dover Marine, Potters Bar Station

DRAW THE FIRES (1963): Production Deltics, Class 25s under construction, Bletchley Flyover, Baby Deltic, DP2, Tollerton Signal Box, AWS, Railway Museum York, Westerham Kent closed station, Carlisle withdrawn steam, Newly preserved Bluebell Line, The Palatine Express.

HIGH WIDE AND FASTER (1964): Integrated transport system, Carlisle Kingmoor Yard, London Termini, On board Blue Pullman, Coal Merry go Round, Cliffe, Kent, Cement terminal

TURN OF THE WHEEL (1964): Scrapping old carriages, New class 47, Middleton Railway preservation, Newmarket old station, London buses, Trams at Crich, Derbyshire, Traction Engines, Pullmans.

PLAYING TRAINS (1967): Keighley and Worth Valley, Middleton Railway Trust, Open day Taplow, Clapham Transport Museum, Flying Scotsman, ‘Cathedrals Express’.

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Origination: 35mm cine-film

Running Time: 48-mins (0hr 48min) , Colour and Black & White
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The Rank Organisation produced a weekly series of short films for showing in Odeon cinemas up and down the country in the 1960s.

ROB CURLING presents six Look at Lifes from the Brooklands aircraft musuem, showing the aircraft industry as it was in the 1960s.

AIR HOSTESS (Heathrow 1960) This quirky film follows an early trolley dolly from her wake up call, through her bus ride with "envious glances" at the bus stop to her arrival right outside the Queen's building at "London Airport". A flight briefing from an ex RAF type Captain then follows. We then see Stewardess Pat go to the stores to stock up on items such as "6 oxygen sets", tea towels, bovril and salad cream. We then follow the stewardesses' work on board a Vickers Viscount en route to North Africa.

CONTROLLED LANDING (Heathrow 1961) Inside the control tower as ATC talk down an incoming Comet in fog. This recreation has its quirky flaws but nonetheless shows us inside the Heathrow control tower when radar was all valve-driven and sports jackets were the normal attire. We see inside the Comet and the flight deck of a simulator masquerading as the real thing. We then see the "Blind Landing Experimental Unit" trying out the "Ghost Pilot" on a Vickers Viking.

CITY OF THE AIR (Heathrow, Gatwick & Stansted 1963) This is a fascinating look at many aspects of "London Airport" in the BOAC and BEA era. The commentary speaks of the "9 million pounds turnover per year at Heathrow". Many aspects are covered from the building of the M4 motorway to the flight catering centre to the BOAC medical centre. We then look at Gatwick with its "1million passenger per year" and an undeveloped Stansted.

FLYING TO WORK (Various 1964) Private planes and helicopters with air taxi services "springing up all over the country". This film starts with Princess Alexandra boarding an Andover of the Queen's flight and Lord Robens boarding a Dove. Other features include Britain's first executive jet the Hawker Siddeley which cost "£225.000", the Beagle 206, Mr Ferranti's helicopter on its remote control launch pad and Battersea Heliport. There is even a "break for elevensees" at 5,000ft...

THE SPIRIT OF BROOKLANDS (Weybridge 1965) Britain's latest airliner the Super VC10 airliner is wheeled out in BOAC colours from the Vickers factory. There is a look back at the origins of the site from a 1960s perspective. High speed motor racing followed by aircraft manufacture starting with the Sopwith Camel in World War One. We then follow a VC10 from manufacturing to test flying.

THE BIG TAKE OFF (Farnborough, Filton, Bristol & Derby 1967) A look at the aviation industry. In 1967 the export TARGET was 200 million pounds per annum! Prince Phillip arrives by helicopter to see Islanders, a Skyvan, AVRO 748, BAC 111 and a handful of military aircraft such as the English Electric Lightning. We then visit the Rolls Royce factory at Derby to see various engines in production. Finally to Filton for the Olympus engine under test and the "140 seat" Concorde 002 in production.

All six films on one DVD. c 1959-1967 Rank Film Distributors Limited. All rights reserved. Licensed by Granada International Ltd

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Narrated by: Rob Curling, written by Peter Middleton.
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
First published on DVD: 2003
Screen aspect ratio: 4:3 SD
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Number of discs: 1 DVD-R
Media Format: DVD-R

Running Time: 60-mins (1hr 0min) , Colour and Black & White
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The Rank Organisation produced a weekly series of short films entitled Look at Life for showing in Odeon cinemas up and down the country in the 1960s. Here ROB CURLING presents six of those films, showing various aspects of Military Aviation as it was in the 1960s.

Golden Wings: (1962) Just over ten years after the Wright brothers first flew in 1903, the First World War saw the rapid development of the aircraft for military purposes. Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert looks at those early aircraft which he actually used to fly….

Black Arrows: (1959) This is a film about the Black Arrows aerobatic team of Treble One squadron flying Hawker Hunters in 1959. Cameras film the team preparing for displays and then follow the action from the ground and in the cockpit.

Flight Deck (1960) Hermes was the Royal Navy’s largest aircraft carrier when filmed in 1960. Two decades before she became famous in the Falklands conflict, film cameras take us above and below decks to film the day to day operations including the take off and landings of aircraft such as the Fleet Air Arm’s Sea Vixens.

Test Pilot: (1961) This film follows the life of a test pilot flying one of the best loved jet fighters of all time – the English Electric Lightning, the Royal Air Force’s first supersonic fighter which had entered service just one year earlier.

Turning Blades: (1962) From fixed wing to rotary wing, Turning Blades looks at the world of the helicopter as it was in 1962. It shows helicopters such as the twin rotor Belevedere – the forerunner of the Chinook and the experimental Rotodyne VTOL aircraft.

Jumping Jets: (1965) Three years after that film was made, an altogether different approach to vertical take off and landing came in the form of the Kestrel – the forerunner of the RAF/Fleet Air Arm Hawker Harrier and US Marine Corps AV-8B.

© 1959-1967 Rank Film Distributors Ltd.. All rights reserved. Licensed by Granada International

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First published on DVD: 2006
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Running Time: 60-mins (1hr 0min) , Colour and Black & White
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Of all the cinema newsreels. Pathé News is the most widely remembered. From the 1930s to the 1960s Pathé covered a dozen or so news stories every week and of course many of those featured railways - being the main form of transport.

In addition to newsreels, Pathé produced a regular magazine programme entitled Pathé Pictorial. As with the newsreels, railways also featured regularly and we have selected no less than 37 stories taken from those 35mm archives.

The news stories run from 1935 to 1955 but the larger selection is of Pathé Pictorials from 1934 to 1964 depicting a fascinating side of the railways long-forgotten!

All stories feature the original soundtracks.

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Filmed by/when: Pathe News, 1934 to 1964.
Narrated by: John Huntley
Written by: Peter Middleton & John Huntley
Sound: Dolby Digital Mono
First published on DVD: 2002
Screen aspect ratio: 4:3 & 16:9 SD
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Number of discs: 1 DVD-R
Media Format: DVD-R
Origination: 35mm cine-film
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The first of two programmes made by Discovery in America featuring railway crashes - mainly American but also includes the British Harrow & Wealdstone disaster in 1952.

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