Title:MILITARY FREIGHT IN TRANSIT ON THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BTF 29
Other titles:RAILWAYS IN BRITAIN, 1935-1976 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Southern Railway transport tanks, speedboats, armoured vehicles and a railway howitzer. A record of boat building at Eastleigh Carriage Works also features.
Description: (22 July 1942) Electric locomotives (No. 14 & 12), hauling carriages near Hassocks, Mid Sussex. MH195
(9 August 1942) Two Southern locomotives (No. 2339) hauling a freight load of Canadian built RAM tanks, at Haywards Heath (Mid Sussex), en route to Crowborough (East Sussex). Shots taken on-board one of the railway wagons, including tank turrets and the back of the train drivers cab. The locomotive pulls slowly through a station before arriving at its destination, and being unloaded by British service personnel. Finishes with a close-up of tank tracks as they roll off one of the railway wagons. (24 sec) MH196
(9 August 1942) Cuts back to scenes of the railway wagons being slowly brought in for unloading. Having been unloaded some of the tanks are shown being driven away. (2 min 28 sec) MH197
(11 August 1942) “General Offices” at Waterloo Station, London, are being demolished. Much of the building had already been destroyed by bombing. (3 min 56 sec) MH198
(21 August 1942) A train load of Bren gun carriers leaving Shorncliffe, Kent, on railway wagons. (4 min 21 sec) MH199
(22 August 1942) A “Railway Howitzer”, covered-up, in amongst some War Department freight wagons at an unknown location (presumably a 14-inch railway gun from the First World War). Close-up of; “HMG BOCHE BUSTER” painted on the side. (5 min 13 sec) MH200
(31 October 1942) Eastleigh Carriage Works, building 25-ft Fast Motor Boats. Carpenters (some female) work on the hull of a boat. Cuts to; shots of carpenters working on the wooden frame of the cabin. Some of the sequence covers the inside of the hull. (Technical: underexposed). (6 min 37 sec) MH201
(31 October & 27 November 1942) 25-ft Fast Motor Boats being transported from Eastleigh Carriage Works by flat railway wagons. A Southern Railway employee oiling the locks on carriage doors at Waterloo Station, London. (8 min 45 sec) OSH202
Alternative Title:RAILWAYS IN BRITAIN, 1935-1976 [Allocated Series Title]
