Britain’s Railways: The Home Front Years – 1944 to 1945

This volume covers the events from the final Luftwaffe air raids and V1 strikes through to VE Day. There’s colour footage of the temporary GWR HQ at Aldermaston in full-swing and black and white film of trains transporting all the men and materiel needed for the D-Day invasion.

We see hospital and Red Cross trains, railway howitzers being tested at Meldon Quarry, bomb damage to railways in London, an interview with the Soham disaster driver and footage of the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Light Railway’s war work.