

Overview
The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.
Year 1963
Studio BBC, British Transport Films
Director John Read
Crew John Read (Director), Alex Pierce (Cinematography), Ronald Craigen (Cinematography), Roy Fry (Editor), Ron Grainer (Music)
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Language English