On And Off The Rails - British Transport Films - Vol. 1 details
| Format: | Ex DVD |
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| Genre: | Special Interest - Trains |
| Studio: | BFI VIDEO |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
On The Rails - British Transport Films |
TBC Disc 1 | |
Off The Rails - British Transport Films |
TBC Disc 2 |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 4 hours 21 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 27 Jun 2005 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Fabulous
By themadpanner (137 reviews) from colchester , 04 Aug 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Old British Transport Films, 4 on Disc 1
Midland Pullman in colour, The Elizabethan in B/W Are in my opinion the
best. Wonderful 2 hours of viewing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(13)Off the rails
By a customer from Waterlooville , 24 Dec 2008Quite interesting but not as good as other DVDs in the series. Worth watching, but probably not worth watching more than once, so rent rather than buy.- Was this review helpful to you?
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BFI Transport
By Canals (3 reviews) from Blandford Forum , 07 Oct 2008A splendid series of Transport film shorties - plenty of 'clipped' tones and an engaging reflection of life 30 years ago and more- Was this review helpful to you?
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A Lost World
By Marishka (4 reviews) from London , 15 Jul 2008On the Rails. All interesting but two will stick with me forever - wonderful film about the first test run with passengers of a new diesel train. I was so enthralled by the goings on and the genuine love of their task shown by every member of the crew that I can't remember where the journey started but it finished all safe and correct in Paddington. Another fabulous one about how the trains are scheduled to bring fish from Scotland to London at the same time as broccoli from Cornwall and coal from Wales. I rented this but I'm going to buy it for whenever the current world gets me down even more than usual - wish I could climb inside!- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from UK , 23 Jun 2008A 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 .........- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from UK , 23 Jun 2008Once you get past the slightly repellent upper middle class accents of the narrators (diphthongs now completely gone from British English), these unselfconscious short films offer a truly beautiful, elegaic look at post-war Britain. In its trains, road vehicles, street scenes, clothing, etc. the era so well photographed here is as vanished and unreachable now as the Roman Empire. The sense of the speed of change in Western society is staggering: and, of course, this was not in the minds of the producers. They, I think one can assume, were advertising a railway system and pointing to the extent to which it was a part of the fabric of all our lives. Fascinating, touching, and beautifully sad.- Was this review helpful to you?
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