Video 125

Classic Railway Newsreels: Steam and Modern

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Classic Railway Newsreels Steam & Modern, with John Huntley

Part 1 and Part 2 on one DVD, a truly wonderful record of the day captured by Movietone.

STEAM

EARLY NEWSREELS

  • Corris Railway/Puffing Billy 1926
  • Leek and Manifold Light Railway 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

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 Station
  • 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 Railway
  • 1968 Kestrel HS4000 at Marylebone
  • 1973 4 PEP EMU Waterloo
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*

Produced by - Video 125
Running time - 120 Minutes
Black and White and Colour (*) archive film
DVD only

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