India Rail

112 Dead In Rail Disaster AKA 112 Dead In Rail Crash (1956)

A rail disaster in India costs 112 lives.

Mail Train

How mail is transported and sorted on a train.

New Safety Device (1965)

Device that brings train to halt when it passes red signals.

Railway Signals (1953)

Inventor demonstrated his new signal safety device for railways. London.

Speed And Safety (1920)

Good footage of steam trains in operation in the 1920's.

Testing! (1930)

A heavy train is used to test a bridge and an enormous locomotive is demonstrated.

Underground School (1955)

Trainees are taken through safety procedures for London Underground trains.

120 Miles An Hour (1937)

Streamlined super modern steam train.

1831-1933 (1933)

A "modern" (1933) train is compared to an "old fashioned" locomotive from 1831.

19th And 20th Century Rail Road Progress (1938)

The Stirling No 1 steam engine of the 1880s is seen alongside the latest Flying Scotsman train.

Locomotives AKA Southern Railway

Various shots of two steam locomotives.

How's That? Some Cricket Revelations

Cricketers Hitch, Sandham, Billitch, Strudwick and others are seen in action - some slow motion.

Calamity ! (1932)

Footage of model train accident for the benefit of children in the United States of America.

A Record Load (1927)

Railway engines are loaded onto railway trucks for shipment to India.

A Reminder Of Empire (1924)

Sir George Lloyd retires as Governor of India, he is replaced by Sir Leslie Nelson.

A Ship Load Of Railway Engines!

Brand new steam engines are loaded onto ships to be taken to India.

A Study In Mischief (1932)

Various shots of monkeys and an elephant in the zoo.

A Stupendous Shipment (1927)

Railway locomotives are exported to India by ship.

Air Service To India Daily Soon (1927)

Passengers board an aircraft bound for Cairo at Croydon.

All Scotch! (1933)

Steam trains destined for India are loaded aboard ship in Glasgow.

Children's Exhibition Issue Title Is Come The Three Corners (1943)

Travelogue item showing Indian quarter of Durban where Asian South Africans live.

Across The Wilderness (1930)

Travelogue featuring the wild country of Cape Colony in South Africa.

1947 Royal Tour (1947)

The royal family on tour of South Africa.