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

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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*

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

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