Peter Pan's Puff-Puff!! A Novel Railway… 1927

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"Not a toy one this time, but a new light "feeder" railway, using a 15" gauge track." M/S of men at work laying a railway track. C/U of man using a tape measure to measure the distance between the tracks. High angle shot of the railway in action. A scale version of a real locomotive pulls cargo carriages...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
18529
Sort Number:
EP 293
Time in/Out:
01:18:03:00 / 01:20:24:00
Canister:
EP 293
Film ID:
1000.15
Issue Date:

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  • The railway featured here is the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR;). It's still going strong today.

    jamied 11th Jun 2012

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