Vintage railway film - Forward to First Principles - 1966

This vintage railway film, produced by British Transport Films in 1966, scans the present and the past to show those economic principles governing the early railways have been rediscovered as a basis for modern freight trains. There have been railways in Great Britain for over three hundred years. In the nineteenth century, railways spread across Britain and changed the geography, history, economy, and the life of a nation, but already there existed primitive railways for moving coal and other minerals from the pits and quarries to navigable water and roads.