A Love Letter to Trains | British Pathé

A Love Letter to Trains On British Pathé TV, we show our love for railways. Enjoy the countless hours of railway documentaries here: “Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle: All of the sights of the hill and the plain Fly as thick as driving rain; And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by …“ ‘From a Railway Carriage’ by Robert Louis Stevenson Music: Debussy - Clair De Lune by Francesco D’Andrea BRITISH PATHÉ’S STORY Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and e