Title:ROYAL ENGINEERS RUN A RAILWAY LINE IN NORMANDY (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 102-2
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Summary: Additional coverage of the running of a section of the Courseulles-Caen railway line by the 181st Railway Operating Company RE.
Description: Rail sections are seen being unloaded from the tank deck of LCT 2343 in the harbour at Courseulles-sur-Mer and transferred to flat-cars standing on the quayside railway. The cameraman films some of the journey from Courseulles to Luc-sur-Mer where the train's cargo is unloaded at the site of No. 188 Transportation Stores Depot by sappers and French SNCF railway workers. Railway sleepers are loaded into waggons for despatch further up the line to Caen where reconstruction work is now underway. The cameraman examines the place names painted on captured Deutsche Reichsbahn rolling stock (Breslau, Essen and Stuttgart) and the inscription, "The Sea, Sand and Sunshine Railway", chalked onto one waggon by its new British owners. A sapper wearing a SNCF railwayman's cap prepares to wave a train off; more of his comrades are seen in the cab of a locomotive.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gross, A C (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
SNCF (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, French civilian - rail (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT 2343 (object name)
Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
Normandy, France (geography)
