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Rail Report 6: The Good Way to Travel

Movie
Rail Report 6: The Good Way to Travel
NR 19 minDocumentaryRail Report Collection PosterPart of Rail Report Collection
Neptune, an automatic and electronically equipped track fault recorder; Tinsley marshalling yard; freight trains - cement, limestone, cars; Reading station and signal box; the laying of long welded rails; Toton diesel maintainance depot; new electrification multiple unit rolling stock for service from Euston, locomotive cab training simulator, Willesden control room; Cross-Channel - launching the SS Dover... are topics featured in this film.
StarringAnthony Marsh
DirectorsJohn TaylorNick Nicholls
WriterRichard Kilburn

Rail Report Collection

A series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955 started to take effect, to log the many developments - new services, equipment, techniques - wherever these have been introduced. They provide a unique pictorial record of the progress of British Railways.

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:British Transport Films, British Railways Board