The Wheels Go Round - By Radio

1949 , March (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 859

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A newsreel item about the innovative use of radio in the railway marshalling yard at Whitemoor.

Men are at work in the signal box, and a train driver is in his cab. One of the signalmen gives an instruction by radio. This is received by the driver. Detonators are placed on the track as a warning against fog. Finally goods wagons are shunted in the marshalling yard, the largest in Britain at the time.

Keywords

Marshalling yard; Radio; Railway; Weather

Background Information

The radio communications were installed after Nationalisation in 1948

Maker : British Pathe

Manifestations

The Wheels Go Round - By Radio

Genre: Newsreel
Locations: March (Cambridgeshire)
Description Type: monographic
Subject: railway workers / radio communications / railway signalling

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