British Transport Films Collection

Groundwork for Progress (3x3)

Data di messa in onda: Gen 01, 1959

With this film, we are taken into the traditional exciting world of railway Civil Engineering. Here we see a length of rail heated until, quite suddenly and dramatically, it buckles. There, a bridge is tested for metal fatigue. The film shows some of the opportunities which British Railways Modernisation is providing for the young Civil Engineer