Britain’s Railways At War: The Home Front Documentary Collection 1941-1946 DVD –  

A comprehensive collection of original archive documentaries covering the wartime role of railways on the British home front and Featuring a wonderful variety of period steam locomotives. NEWSPAPER TRAIN (1941, 6 mins) Even during the worst air-raids of the Blitz, with the railways as a prime Luftwaffe target, the railways Never failed to transport London printed newspapers to the provinces! SHUNTER BLACK’S NIGHT OFF (1941, 7 mins) Shunter, Joe Black, heroically extinguishes a burning explosives truck through a meticulous And delicate manoeuvre across the points of a goods yard to the water tower. THE ARMY LAYS THE RAILS (1941, 9 mins) Dedicated to the tracklaying and railway maintenance operations of the Royal Engineers Including an armoured train and the firing of the railway mounted ‘Boche Buster’ gun! DECONTAMINATION AND REPAIRS TO DAMAGED TRACK (1942, 20 mins) The equipment, precautions and procedures adhered to by a Southern Railway anti-gas team during a simulated gas attack on railway lines near West Hoathly, Sussex.