This 100% archive film programme is made from significant amounts of
previously unseen film footage from the vaults of the Imperial War Museum in
combination with genuine wartime newsreel footage.
It evidences the great
diversity of steam locomotive types brought to bear on the transportation of
all kinds of wartime goods and passengers.
This is the first part of the most
comprehensive trilogy ever made on Britain’s railways during the war years;
this first volume covers the events from the outbreak of war to the cessation of
‘The Blitz’ in May 1941.