Watch the future works soap2day. A film aimed at showing young people the range of careers open to them if they joined British Rail as an apprentice. It shows the support and education given to apprentices during their training.
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This short documentary shows how a city's water supply is purified at a filtration plant. The complex system of the underground mains that supply all...
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After shooting more short films and documentaries, Deschanel wrote, directed and shot Trains, a short film that won the Silver Bear at the 1976...
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First transmitted in 1969, this documentary follows the construction of the world’s most advanced underground system. Macdonald Hastings...
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In hand-built, double-hulled canoes sixty feet long, the ancestors of today's Polynesians sailed vast distances using only the waves, the stars, and...
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The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering...
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It was one of the greatest heists in British history. £3 million – worth over £40 million today – stolen from a moving train...
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A film looking at the first 100 years of the Underground Railway in London from 1863 to 1963. A range of well known people and senior managers speak...
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As the modernisation of London Underground continues, long serving A-Stock and C-Stock trains have been withdrawn from service, and their differing...
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A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...
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A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and...
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A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.