The Joy Of Trains

In 1952 the BBC produced a short novelty filler under the title London to Brighton in Four Minutes. Filmed from the front of a train at 2 frames per second, when run at the standard 24 frames per second it gave the illusion of an extremely high-speed journey. This technique proved so incredibly popular with audiences that it was copied many times by other film units. Let's Go to Birmingham was British Transport Films' first attempt at the technique; filmed aboard one of British Railway's new 90mph Diesel Luxury Express Blue Pullmans, it provides a wonderful time capsule of the steam to diesel crossover period as seen from the driver's eye view.

DirectorJack West
Production CompanyBritish Transport Films
Music - Verian Thomas

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Music

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• trains
• verian thomas
• verian
• creative commons
• nsi
• diesel
• steam
• leamington spa
• paddington
• birmingham