Title:STRUCTURAL REPAIR WORK TO BOMB DAMAGED RAILWAY LINES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BTF 13
Other titles:RAILWAYS IN BRITAIN, 1935-1976 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: On-going repairs being made to bomb damaged railway lines between Waterloo and Vauxhall, London.
Description: (10 September 1940) Four workmen, and a railway crane, undertake repairs to bomb damaged railway lines between Waterloo and Vauxhall, London. The crane hoists the wooden posts down to another group of workmen (Home Guard?) at a lower level, where they help manoeuvre the posts onto a stack. MH96
(11 September 1940) Rubble is being cleared from inside a collapsed railway arch between Waterloo and Vauxhall by workmen (Home Guard?) using pickaxes and shovels. Two sets of railway tracks are suspended over the bomb damaged mainline arch. Various shots of the bomb crater from inside the arch. New wooden posts are cut by soldiers using two handed saws as work to secure the damaged arch continues. (1 min 35 sec) MH98
(12 September 1940) More shots of troops repairing bomb damage at a railway arch between Waterloo and Vauxhall. Wooden poles are positioned to help secure the damaged arch. (4 min 11 sec) MH99
(17 September 1940) Repairs in progress at a bombed railway arch (No. 161) in Lambeth, London. The content of a freight wagon is emptied through a hole in the surface of the railway line above. (5 min 39 sec) MH100
Alternative Title:RAILWAYS IN BRITAIN, 1935-1976 [Allocated Series Title]
