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| British Transport Films Collection 22/12/2013 at 07:08 #53085 | |
CTCThiago
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Cheers, Thiago. Log in to reply The following user said thank you: maxand |
| British Transport Films Collection 22/12/2013 at 12:05 #53097 | |
maxand
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Full list of DVDs here. Try searching on these titles and you never know what might turn up. ;) Also see this forum thread. Last edited: 22/12/2013 at 12:09 by maxand Log in to reply The following user said thank you: CTCThiago |
| British Transport Films Collection 22/12/2013 at 13:23 #53100 | |
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maxand
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YouTube turned up some related videos: Diesel Trainride (1959). A short film about a ride on a new Derby Diesel Multiple Unit (later class 114) from Norwich to Cambridge. Worth watching for the priceless comments of the little brat sitting next to his father, if nothing else! Single Line Working (1958). Excellent. YouTube comment: "Looks like BR could've saved a fortune if they burned their paperwork for fuel instead of coal." (added) Not a single token to be seen here! Last edited: 23/12/2013 at 11:36 by maxand Log in to reply |
| British Transport Films Collection 23/12/2013 at 14:01 #53121 | |
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kbarber
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" said:YouTube turned up some related videos: They are available as a complete set or as individual collections. Tim got me them for Christmas a couple of years ago... absolutely wonderful! Terminus alone is worth the price of a collection (especially the scenes in the signalbox... I still wonder if 'Bill', working the top end that morning, was Bill Waylett, who I knew many years later as Area Movements Inspector at Waterloo). Points & Aspects is good too, showing the commissioning of Barking Signalbox (the 1961 box, with a MV-GRS NX panel). But there isn't a duff one anywhere in the set; worth every penny! 'Single Line Working' was an instructional video - I recall it being shown to us at Signalling School, with comments about the changes that had taken place since it was made. There wouldn't be a token, it was for training people how to introduce SLW on a double track line. I believe the paperwork has been somewhat slimmed down, but it's still there; the idea seems to be that having all concerned write out and sign something helps lodge it in the mind (and, if anything subsequently goes wrong, should prove what was and wasn't complied with). Of course the answer is bidirectional signalling, but that involves the spending of substantial amounts of filthy lucre that others would prefer to give to shareholders or bankers so it's not that common. Log in to reply The following user said thank you: maxand |