Railways - Derelict and Preserved

Coal touched all our lives, as this issue of the cinemagazine demonstrates with items on a miner's wife turned mayor, a Coal Board chess team and more.

There’s an obliging pose for the camera by a brawny and tattooed docker as his fellow workers push the freight along Yarmouth’s Rail Line.

New colliery opens at Calverton in Nottinghamshire and a visit to Rugby Locomotive Testing Station

The life of a railway sleeper is not an easy one, and here they get prepared for the rain, the snow and ice, and the thousands of tons of steel hurtling over them, day in day out.

Desolate stations, abandoned locos and derelict tracks under grey skies become transformed by dedicated volunteers, unmotivated by money, into a marvellous steam railway.

Plastered at work? Injured British Rail employees are put on the railroad to health at Swindon Works

Railways great and small, past, present and preserved - a snapshot of rail in Britain in the 1970s.

Mrs Cross takes the Daz test but what will the outcome be?

Points of view from a production company at the outset of commercial television in the UK.

From out of the vaults comes this pre-WWII cinema advert for ice-cream

A hard-working Catford clippie and her family star in this cinema ad for hot chocolate.

In 1972 Britain entered the European common market full of beans. What could go wrong?

A cup of Horlicks helps a struggling husband bring home the bacon in this 1950s advert.