Rail Report 13: On Track for the Eighties(1980)

Name: Rail Report 13: On Track for the Eighties
Director: John Legard
Released: 1980-01-01
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Peter Hawkins

01/01/1980 (US)Documentary0h 15m

5.5

"The final report in a series of 13 topical films"

Overview

A review of innovation and development within BR and its businesses, including: modernisation of freight facilities and service to new companies; progress of the Bedford/St. Pancras electrification project; paved track and permanent way maintenance; Sealink's "Galloway Princess"; Seaspeed's SRN4; and the Research department's magnetically levitated vehicle. For general showing.

John Legard

Director

Glyn Jones

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Peter Hawkins

Self - Commentator

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Part of the 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.