Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
All the Stations is a documentary series published on YouTube, which sees Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe visit all 2,563 stations [note 1] on Great Britain's National Rail rail network, [4] [5] [6] and all 198 stations in Ireland, on the railway networks of Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
Night Mail, also known as Concerto or Britain's Railway, was a 1988 British advert produced by Ridley Scott Associates and British Transport Films for British Rail.It was based on the 1936 documentary of the same name, and used the first stanza of a poem by W. H. Auden that was written for the film.
The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track is a British television documentary broadcast on BBC Two and narrated by Kevin Whately. It is about passenger railway operations in Britain. [1] The series, produced by Century Films, comprises six episodes and was first broadcast on 12 February 2013.
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board.
Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television.The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection.
The Finishing Line is a short film produced in 1977 by British Transport Films and directed by John Krish. [1] It was written by Krish and Michael Gilmour. It warns about the dangers children face on railway lines.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
"The Age of the Train" was a television advertising campaign in the United Kingdom created by British Rail in the late 1970s to promote its InterCity rail travel service. The adverts were presented by DJ and BBC presenter Jimmy Savile and featured the then-new InterCity 125 high-speed train. [1]