Vintage railway film - Rail report nine - Top levels of transport - 1969

This vintage railway film, produced by British Transport Films in 1969, is report No. 9 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since introduction of the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955, to log the many developments - new services, equipment, techniques - wherever these have been introduced. They provide a unique pictorial record of the progress of British Railways. The film’s contents are as follows:- Euston; ships - Freightliner II, Antrim Princess; container handling Parkeston Quay; Merry-go-round coal trains; permanent way lining and tamping machine; off-loading cable troughing; strengthening the Royal Albert Bridge; Old Course Hotel, St Andrew’s; car bodies by train - factory to assembly line; Beckenham train control; speed up of West of England expresses.