| THE GREAT RAIL STRIKE ( shorter version ) Train drivers abandon their engines and travel home by bus. | ||
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| Catalog #: | 245918 | |
| Clip Number: | 245918-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1053 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1924 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | LABOR UNIONS: Strikes LABOR UNIONS: Transportation LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London TRANSPORTATION/RAIL: Misc | |
| Description: | MISSING 4/5/2007 See also catalog # 245823 The GREAT RAIL STRIKE. All signals against - a picture that visualises the desolation at great railway stations all over the Country on the first day. L/S of empty tracks coming out of a large station (probably in London). Panning shot of signals at the end of the platforms. Panning shot of steam engines parked in a siding in front of a large shed. "The Empty cab". High angled shot, from the coal bunker, of an empty driver's cab in one of the parked engines. "The Lighter side. Mr. Bromley says good-bye to the drivers and firemen - who, after leaving their engines, had to go home to the provinces by char-a-bancs"! M/S of a group of engine drivers in flat caps laughing. M/S of the drivers climbing aboard an old fashioned minibus (charabanc). M/S of Mr. Bromley, M.P., shaking hands with the men through the minibus window. C/U of Mr. B. | |
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