Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:British Transport Films
Cast & Crew
R
Richard Q. McNaughton
Editor
J
Jack West
Cinematography
W
William Mathias
Music
Forward to First Principles
31 minDocumentary
Plot
There have been railways in this country for over three hundred years In the nineteenth century railways spread across Britain and changed the geography history economy and the life of a nation but already there existed primitive railways for moving coal and other minerals from the pits and quarries to navigable water and roads This film scans the present and the past to show those economic principles governing the early railways have been rediscovered as a basis for modern freight trains