This interim test blog is meant to help illustrate a series of innovative rail-themed films, music, digital media, visual arts and live performances etc that support the case for applying new Creative Culture Principles to our 200 year-old passenger railways. This preliminary blog site has been created by Ian Banks, who is presently working as an arts consultant with Design Council for Network Rail.
Saturday, January 31, 1970
Film Documentary: Sir John Betjeman 'Railways For Ever' (1970)
This film is available to buy as part of the 18-disc boxset 'The British Transport Films Collection' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/...
11 August 1968 is a highly significant date in British railway history, marking the official end of regular mainline steam operation. As we see the last steam train crossing the Pennines and hear the Edwardian music-hall song 'Watching the Trains Go Out', Sir John Benjamin begins to reminisce. His nostalgic verse and prose recall the great trains of old as he moves through a photographic exhibition in Kingsway.
For more information on British Transport Films, visit http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/i...
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