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In the 1960s, the rail network was radically changed as British Railways carried out its modernisation programme. The British Transport Films unit and the TV news captured this changing scene, but much of the footage was never released.

Now, for the first time, the unseen BTF archive has been compiled to tell the story of the railways in fabulous colour. Looking at the networks in j London, these include: southern steam at Waterloo (with the Nine Elms Depot), all the major London stations, the Blue Pullman and early diesels, the Golden Arrow and Night Ferry service, goods and mail, steam on the Metropolitan Railway and building the Victoria line.

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From the mouth of the River Tees to the rugged coast of the North Sea this programme takes us through some of the country s most breathtaking scenery. With the splendour of the Esk Valley and the dramatic climb into the North York Moors, this is one of the great railway journeys.

Starting in Middlesbrough, we explore the three railway lines that serve this popular holiday area: the heritage line, the Esk Valley line and the North Yorkshire Moors line. Taking a look around the industrial town of Middlesbrough, we pass through Redcar, Saltburn, Staithes and many other beautiful towns and villages along the way. From Battersby we head up the steep incline into the magnificent North York Moors National Park, before travelling across to Whitby with it cobbled streets, splendid abbey and beautiful surrounding beaches. Finally we head down to the busy market town of Pickering with its glorious castle, which is the end of the line for our truly delightful journey.

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Five feature-length episodes of the ITV detective series set in the city of Glasgow.

Hard Man (2002)

DCI Burke and the team are called to investigate the discovery of the mangled body of lain Wilson in what appears as an industrial accident at a Clyde shipyard. Union leader Gavin Logan, caught up in an acrimonious dispute over safety procedures, is quick to point the finger at unsafe working practices. However, Tommy McCabe, head of the yard, infers that Wilson was responsible for his own death. However, it is revealed that Wilson was already dead before the accident. Suddenly Burke is dealing with a murder.
Fade to Black (2002)
Burke and Ross are called to Sandra White's flat to discover she's been stabbed in the back. As Burke talks to Karen, who found the body, Ross phones Reid and Fraser, who are at another crime scene with Crombie - a heroin overdose. Ross tells her and Fraser to wrap things up and get themselves over to Sandra's flat - in his words, this one's the real thing.
Blood Money (2002)
It's the big title fight between Johnny Sullivan and Andy Corbett and enjoying ringside seats are Burke, Ross and Fraser. However, Burke seems more interested in the gathering of most of Glasgow's leading criminal fraternity than the fight - in particular an "old friend" from the past Sammy Cassidy. What has brought Sammy Cassidy back to Glasgow after 20 years?
New Life (2003)
Murder strikes at the heart of Glasgow's scientific community when Professor Lloyd, a leading researcher at Wenbourne, is killed en-route to make the keynote speech at Glasgow's Science Centre. Burke and the team initially suspect the anti-protest group, which has been campaigning heavily against Lloyd's "Dolly the Sheep" type research, but on closer examination Burke, discovers a world where the human motives of greed, love and ambition raise their ugly heads.
Bad Blood (2003)
In the aftermath of a frenzied stabbing of a Kurdish minicab driver, Burke finds he has been delegated with an officer on a fast track scheme and with a knowledge of race-hate crimes. DS Hannah Fairchild, is an ambitious copper, and Ross, Fraser and Reid take to her at once. However Burke and Fairchild quickly rub each other up the wrong way. Meanwhile, Ross is warned that war is imminent and Burke has to stop it before he can solve the crime otherwise Glasgow will be littered with bodies.

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Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948, the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit.

Launched on 1st May 1949, and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey - a founding father of the British documentary movement - it became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain.This, the fifth in a series of double DVD box sets, including classics such as Journey Into Spring, Wild Winds and Between The Tides, as well as rare gems such as The Scene From Melbury House and An Artist Looks At Churches. All these films are now preserved in the BFI National Archive. This selection has been digitally remastered for this two-disc set, which is a 'must' not just for the transport enthusiast, but also for the documentary aficionado who will recognise traits and innovations in British non-fiction filmmaking.

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DCI Burke and the team are called to investigate the discovery of the mangled body of lain Wilson in what appears to be an industrial accident at a Clyde shipyard.

Union leader, Gavin Logan, who is caught up in an acrimonious dispute over safety procedures, is quick to point the finger at unsafe working practices. But when it is revealed that Wilson was already dead before the accident, Burke realises he is dealing with a murder.

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In this first fascinating programme, we take a journey through some of the heritage steam railways operating in the North of England.

Sit back and enjoy visiting the East Lancashire Railway, the Lakeside and Haverthwaite, the Ravenglass and Eskdale, the Keighley and North Valley, the North Yorkshire Moors and many more main line stations. Also included is a rare photo montage of the Old Steam Shed at Barrow-In-Furness which was demolished in the 1970's.

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'Scottish Express' follows the post-war LNER service between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley.

Scottish Express (1946)

The film is about the preparation and operation of the immediate post-war Scottish Express LNER service drawn by A3 class steam locomotive 4489 on its 10am run from London King's Gross to Edinburgh Waverley with her driver and fireman Tom and Fred. Shot from the lineside, on board the train and in the steam engine's cab during the run, the film also shows the construction of steam engines at the LNER's Doncaster works and visits the company's coachworks at York. Other LNER steam locomotives featured are 4485 6Webster', 4492, 4599, 4464 'Bittern' 4493 NE and 4465.
Going North (1945)
An archive travelogue journeying to Scotland from the English Lake District via Cumberland and Westmorland. We see sheep farming, traditional salmon fishing, Princes Street in Edinburgh, Berwick Castle, Inverness, a paddle steamer on a loch and hear an evocative soundtrack of Scottish Folk Songs including Over the Sea to Skye, The Skye Boat Song, Coming Through the Rye and Loch Lomond.
An Excerpt from 'Beautiful Trossachs' (1938)
This is an extract from a travelogue made for the LMS showing The Trossachs in central Scotland. Presenting a combination of lochs, woods, mountains, glens, picturesque villages and hills, the film shows Loch Katrine and Lomond from a tourist's perspective following the paddle steamers that ply their trade there. Also seen are the 'Four in Hand' horse-drawn coaches transporting tourists from one loch to the other.

Dl Ross puts his love life before his career when he finds the body of photographic assistant Danny at a luxury cottage while on a romantic tryst with new girlfriend Eve Hamilton. Dl Ross has to make some tough decisions as DCI Burke and the team investigate the death.

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Taxi driver Terry Donnelly is found dead in his cab outside Houston's jewellers shop. His body is discovered by Davie Houston (Robert Carr) and his family on their return from the funeral of Davie's daughter Julia.

Davie and his brother Billy (Tom Mannion) deny all knowledge of the deceased, as does Davie's son Charles. DCI Burke (Alex Norton), however, feels that the Houston family is at the heart of the case. But what is the connection between the criminals and a respectable jeweller - or is something else driving the killer to kill?

A doctor at a women's health centre is murdered, and anti abortionists are the prime suspects- But they believe in the sanctity of life, so are they being framed? Burke and his team investigate and have a race against time to stop the killer in his tracks.

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Novelist Jason Randell is found murdered in an ally the morning after a prestigious book launch. Burke and the team start to piece together Randell's last movements. Initially their only lead is Debbie Thomson, a drugged and confused prostitute found in the alley next to Randell.

At Randell's publisher Drummbnds,.Fraser discovers that their victim was far from the fine upstanding citizen he seemed....

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When Billy McCree is found dead, in his workshop, newly released prisoner Jim Naysmith is the prime suspect for his murder. McCree gave evidence against Naysmith and his gang twenty years before - a testimony that put the hardened criminal behind bars.

Naysmith, however, has a cast-iron alibi that the Taggart team can't break. So it's back to the drawing board...

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Night Mail (1936)

The lasting appeal of Night Mail, celebrating the Postal's Special run from London to Scotland, is that it has all the attributes of the classic British documentary style established by John Grierson. Its realism and lyrical structure perfectly complemented by the verse of Auden and the music of Britten.

West Highland (1960)
By 1960, the reign of steam on Britain's most scenic railway, the West Highland, was drawing to its close. John Gray, a BBC producer and sound engineer with the GPO Film Unit in the 1930s, made West Highland as his tribute to this wonderful line. Perhaps the last of the lyrical documentaries, it completes a superb double bill for both film and railway enthusiasts in crisp black and white. Released on DVD for the first time.

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Since the first investigation was broadcast 25 years ago in September 1983 Taggart has become one of the most popular detective dramas on British TV.

This special contains unique five new, gripping cases for the hard bitten Glasgow detectives to unravel as well as a unique documentary celebrating the 25th anniversary.

Judgement Day
The death of DCI Burke's elderly father leaves him searching for answers.
Island
A mutilated body is discovered on a remote island.
Trust
The body of a hit man who has been tortured and executed is found on wasteland.
A Study in Murder
A college principal is found crushed to death in the lift shaft of a local school.
Point of Light
A private investigator is found lying dead at the bottom of a quarry.

Barry Secord, an unpopular restaurant critic, is found murdered in his kitchen, and a petty thief linked to the crime scene becomes the prime suspect. But it soon turns out that he had a secret life - and that the killer has only just started.