British Railways: The Home Front War Years - 1944 to 1945 (1945)
2h 10min
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- Synopsis:
'Britain's Railways: The Home Front War Years 1944 to 1945' is the third and final part of the most comprehensive trilogy ever made on Britain's railways during the war years; this volume covers the events from the final Luftwaffe and V-1 air raids in 1944 through to Victory and V.E. Day! Highlights include :- Luftwaffe Bomb and V-1 rocket damage throughout London at Wimbledon, Malden Manor, Paddington, Waterloo, Victoria, Charing Cross, Peckham Rye, Bricklayer s Arms and the reconstruction of Hungerford Bridge / Rare colour footage of the GWR Wartime HQ at Aldermaston / The transportation of soldiers, armour and munitions by train in preparation for D-Day; gun barrels, dock piers, pontoon bridge sections and Valentine, Cromwell, Crusader and Sherman tanks. Many of the tanks loaded at the old LNER Newmarket station / Ambulance and hospital trains at Southampton Docks and Malvern Wells and Red Cross trains at Haywards Heath and Hassocks / Rail mounted Howitzer guns en-route and tested at Meldon Quarry / The June 1944 Evacuation of children by train in response to the new V-1 attacks / Army film records of activity on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway and of goods trains in the Willesden area / An interview with the surviving driver of the Soham Ammunition Train Explosion Disaster and much more... - Studio:
- Cherry Red
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest