Railway Breakdown Crew At Work (1941)

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Railway Breakdown Crew at Work.
M/Ss Signal men working levers in signal box. M/Ss Local steam passenger trains passing camera. Various good shots of repair gangs at work on bombed section of railway track. They fill bomb crater and replace sleepers, etc. Various shots of railway workers using cutters and cranes removing a wrecked signal gantry from across main line track. Several shots of wrecked rolling stock. More good shots of railwaymen at work on bomb damaged track also aided by heavy lifting equipment.
FILM ID:1633.13
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[@johndavies1090]

Classic - East London railways during the Blitz. Some marvelous shots for the steam enthusiast.

[@Good_BorisAV]

_Thank you!_
_Very interesting and educational!_

[@FifoTheItalian]

This is a beautiful footage

[@cliffleigh7450]

As the trolleybus goes by at 2:11.

[@rodsmith3911]

Saw what looked like a Nottingham Corporation trolleybus in one section of the film. Could that be on the G. C.?

[@kemmerer]

More likely, a London Transport trolleybus.

[@keithhatton8077]

Judging by the truck with "CITY OF NOTTINGHAM" down the side of it and the location of the bridge/signalbox the footage between 2:00 and 3:10 could be somewhere near Arkwright Street/queen's walk on the gcr lines?

[@rodsmith3911]

@@keithhatton8077 I used the GCR line between Leicester and Nottingham a lot about 60 years ago but I can't place the site. I well remember Arkwright Street Station as a girlfriend lived not far from there. I took my bike on the last DMU from Leicester on the last day of service and rode back to Leicester rather than use the Midland route! I will have to see if I can locate the photos I took as I haven't looked at them for years. Brings back lots of memories! What a wasteful country we live in that demolished a main line designed to go to the Channel Tunnel then spends £45 billion on making HS2 to do the same thing and stops building it so we will only have a HS line from Wembley to Birmingham, at the same time as they are still removing the remains of the GCR route!