Modern Railway (1963)

London. M/S various vintage vehicles inside new transport museum. M/S horse drawn bus. C/U sign - 'Paddington to Bank'. Panning shot two men looking at horse drawn omnibuses. M/S Stephenson's Rocket. C/U sign - 'Rocket'. C/U belt drive of 'Puffing Billy' steam train. M/S of old fashioned railway carriage. M/S steam train, pan to other steam train. Yorkshire. Story moves to show various railway modernisation schemes. M/S inside automated train washing machine. C/U rotating sponges and sprays of water. M/S of train driver steering train through wash. Point of View shot as train goes through wash. M/S train coming out of wash. M/S of a track side trencher dragging up earth. Various shots of machine making a trench for drainage pipes. The earth is carried by conveyor belt onto a truck before being dumped in rail wagons. L/S trains coming into large station. C/U man adjusting automatic track greaser. M/S man scooping grease into machine. M/S man with flags under arm watching greasing process. Panning shot from approaching train on tracks to greaser. C/U of wheels running on tracks. Cuts exist - see separate record. FILM ID:231.1 FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/