07 Mar 2023
How to Fix a Railway
A multibillion-pound investment is underway to make our railways bigger, better and faster. Over three years, we go behind the scenes with Wales’s newest rail body as they try to make ambitious promises a reality.
Elizabethan Express
Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. A nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.
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Alan Wheatley Self - Narrator (voice)
Howard Marion-Crawford Self - Narrator (voice)
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