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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 21 mins 32 secs
Subject: Working Life Railways Industry
Summary This is a film of workers constructing a cross section of track at Chalk Lane railway sidings located on the outskirts of Hull. It has been filmed in real time at ½ second intervals.
Description This is a film of workers constructing a cross section of track at Chalk Lane railway sidings located on the outskirts of Hull. It has been filmed in real time at ½ second intervals.
A gang of men in a railway sidings are assembling a cross section of track – or point half shunt section – assembled by hand with a crane lifting the rails. There are three other completed cross sections of track behind them. When they have finished they walk off.
