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On And Off The Rails - The British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 1 [1951] [DVD]

On And Off The Rails - The British Transport Films Collection - Vol. 1 [1951] [DVD]
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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #22787 in DVD
  • Released on: 2005-06-27
  • Rating: Exempt
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
  • Formats: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PAL
  • Original language: English
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Running time: 261 minutes

Editorial Reviews

Synopsis
Includes features from the 'British Transport Films' series, such as 'John Betjeman Goes By Train' as well as brand new material, such as 'The Diesel Train Driver' and 'On Track For The Eighties'.

Customer Reviews

Finally available on DVD5
A wonderful collection of some nostalgic films of British life, mostly in the 1950s. It's not just train lovers will enjoy this but anybody who enjoys watching films of real life in that era. It's worth it just for "Elizabethan Express" and "Snowdrift at Bleath Gill". Finally available on DVD after years of waiting this DVD contains great looking picture quality with hardly any MPEG artifacts from beautifully restored films. Obviously this has been carefully and lovingly put together.

transport films at their best5
A wonderfully nostalgic look at britains railways in their heyday. Good quality recordings throughout. The commentaries are worth listening to in their own right. Look out , or rather listen out for such voices as Derek Guyler and MacDonald Hobley.
This is pure Britain in a time that we were proud to be english .........

Magnificent5
This dvd set is worth it for the scenes of snow being cast aside by the steam operated snow ploughs alone! All the films are not only very well produced (as was always the case with BTF productions) but also show an historical view of a railway system now long gone in terms of steam traction and all other aspects of operation. They also serve as great sociological documents indicating a society which again has changed out of all recognition (as well as the more obvious, little nauances such as the comment 'a bit like eating landlady's cake' come to mind).

If you are inetrested in railway, engineering or social history or just want to be inspired by large amounts of snow being thrown to the side of the track or enormous steam beam engines at work, you will not be disappointed with this set.