| MODERN RAILWAY An item about a new transport museum and various railway modernisation schemes. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6048 |
| Catalog #: | 304112 | |
| Clip Number: | 304112-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 449 | |
| Timecode: | 01:08:30 - 01:11:39 | |
| Location: | London & Yorkshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENGINEERING: Railroad LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England TRANSPORTATION/RAIL: Exhibitions TRANSPORTATION/RAIL: Misc | |
| Description: | MODERN RAILWAY (aka RAILWAY MUSEUM AND MODERN RAILWAY METHODS) An item about a new transport museum and various railway modernization schemes. LS Int. Museum. MS Of very ancient bus on side we see Knife Polish sign. MS Of sign Paddington to bank. MLS Two men inspecting ancient buses. MLS Of Stephenson's Rocket. MS This train showing the name plate. We pan from right to left to show a bit more of train. MS Of large train. We pan down this train where it goes round the wheels. MLS Of this ancient train. MS Of ancient railway carriage one side we see Liverpool - Manchester traveler. MS Of large ancient steam engine. We pan from right to left to show a similar one. Train Washing MS Of washing machine working. MS Ditto. from another angle. The water starts to spray out. MS Driver of train. We pan from right to left to show this washing machine as we are coming into. We go into the washing machine MLS Ditto. Railway Trencher CU Trencher in action. MS Showing trenching machine dragging up earth. We pan up this machine. to show dirt being taken to the top. LS Looking down trenching machine. We see that it is being carried along by a diesel engine. MLS Of the conveyor belts taking the dirt to the awaiting truck. MS Of part of conveyor. MLS Of the conveyor. We pan from right to left to show man on top of machine. MLS We see two men one on top of trencher and one waiting in truck below to take load away. Man on top of trencher gives signal for the dirt to be dropped into truck. MS The truck drives off we pan with it from right to left. MS On this truck as we track down to where dirt is. MLS We see this truck arriving. He stops and starts to empty dirt out of truck. Railway Greaser LS Showing lots of lines crossing one another this is the place where all the points have to be greased. CU Of greaser. Man's hand comes into picture and takes off lid of greaser. MS Man putting grease into greaser. MS Man watching for oncoming trains. LS Of these two men. We see the man who was greasing the greaser has now finished and walks out of the picture. LS Of train coming. We pan down to show this greasing point. CU Of the track. First wheels of the train roll across point. | |
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