TRANSPORT: Track laying on the LNER (1930)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit London and North Eastern Railway workers laying new track near Cambridge with the help of lifting machinery. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Meanwhile at Cambridge, the . lay new track in record time with very latest electrical machinery. ENGLAND: Cambridgeshire: Cambridge: Piles of rail tracks loaded onto freight carriage on railway siding. Lifting mechanism hauling sections of tracks from train and laying on trackbed. Steam locomotive along track. Railway worker (’navvy’) operating machinery to set track in place. More of track-laying and connecting. Navvies shovelling ballast onto track. Background: London and North Eastern Railway workers laying new track near Cambridge with the help of lifting machinery. FILM ID: VLVADQG827YZ2B1KMSFRDNYWZRO4L To license this film, visit
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