Pathe Railway Pictorial

VIDEO 125 presents a nostalgic trip through the archives of British Pathe. Of all the cinema newsreels Pathe News is the most widely remembered. From the 1930s to the 1960s Pathe covered a dozen or so news stories every week and of course many of those featured railways - being the main form of transport. In addition to newsreels, Pathe produced a regular magazine program entitled Pathe Pictorial. As with the newsreels, railways also featured regularly and we have selected no less than 37 stories taken from those 35mm archives. The news stories run from 1935 to 1955 but the larger selection is of Pathe Pictorials from 1934 to 1964 depicting a fascinating side of the railways long-forgotten!

Pathe News
GWR streamline loco 1935 / GWR viaduct demolition Llanbradach 1937 / Steam scrapyard Swindon 1938 / Sir Nigel Gresley LNER 50 years of progress 1938 / New SR Electric loco Waterloo 1942 / Whitemoor Marshalling Yard Cambridgeshire 1949 / Trains running again after end of national rail strike in 1955.

Pathe Pictorials
Paddington Goods Depot 1934 / Horwich Fire Train 1936 / One train a week - Blackwell Mill Halt, Buxton 1938 / The shortest railway - East Kent Light Railway 1938 / The house above Clayton Tunnel SR 1938 / Old Liverpool and Manchester Station 1939 / One man railway station – Port Victoria Kent 1939 / The Devon Belle 1947 / The privately owned Snowdon Railway 1948 / Waterloo platform track laying by new BR 1948

Colour Pictorials
Early Talyllyn Railway 1955 / Deltic, Classes 20 & 08 at exhibition 1957 / New Hastings DEMUs 1957 / New track recorder 1959 / Long welded rails - ECML at Dinsdale 1960 / Terence Cuneo on location painting a Co-Bo loco Condor 1960 / Modernisation of British Railways -Temple Mills 1960 / Old station at Nunnington Yorkshire 1960 / Queen Victoria's coach at Clapham 1960 / Steam replaced by electrics at Stratford East London 1961 / Early Bluebell Railway 1961 / Land Rover adapted to run on standard gauge rail lines 1961 / Old LNWR coach with thatched roof - Essex 1961 / Students working on the Middleton Railway 1962 / Modernisation - various locations 1963 / Nunnington Station turned into a Café 1963 / The Royal Scot locomotive taken by road to Butlins, Skegness 1963 / Horse shunting at Newmarket 1964 / Early Ffestiniog Railway 1964.