Shunting Horse (1964)

Newmarket, Suffolk. A story about the way horses are used to pull railway carriages. Various shots of horses training in a field and in the stable yard. We see one horse eating in a field, Lawrence Kelly grooms him and puts a harness round his neck. A train drives by and they walk down the tracks. Lawrence hitches up the harness to a truck and the horse starts pulling the carriages. Signal man Jack Armstrong pulls the levers so the horse can go through, the train is shunted into position. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well