Timeshift - The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail

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This was on BBC 4 on Tues 10 Oct at 9pm.  Looks like it was made in 2014. It covers the BR Modernisation Plan and some of its results. Lots of clips from British Transport Films, Blue Pullman, prototype HST and APT, production APT,  50s/60s steam and so on. 

 

Also some interviews with people involved in developing the APT (recruited from the motor and aviation industries) and the HST (experienced railway engineers)  and a journalist who had to experience the APTs initial passenger runs, which did not last long of course. The HST on the other hand was rather more sucessful....  

 

Whether you think the Modernisation Plan really did lead to a golden age or if it was a excuse by road lobby pressured Governments to shut down a third of the railway network, there's some interesting train footage here!