National Archives - Railways

[dannyboy]

I have just received an email from the national archives as this year is the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Central Office Of Information. (How many of you knew that? ).

"To mark this milestone, we have teamed up with British Film Institute and Imperial War Museums to showcase our shared government films collections - which is now open for exploring!"

I went to the site and typed 'Railways' in the search box - it came back with 828 results!  On the first page it showed results that mention Beeching, Victorian Railways, Cabinet Papers, Railway Workers and Interwar Policy amongst others. There is no way I have time now to go through everything, but I thought it might interest some of you, (when you have an hour or two to spare), especially if the search term is narrowed down a bit.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

[woodbury22uk]

I got diverted into the plans to assassinate Hitler in 1944. :-)

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/hitler-assassination-plan/

[Richard Taylor]

Just to clarify, in case anyone's getting excited about there being 828 railway films on TNA's website: simply searching for "railways" on TNA's homepage is giving you all the occurrences of that word in the main website (webpage text, research guides, etc.), not just references to railway films. As TNA holds a large chunk of the archives of all British railway companies, plus the archives of the government departments that regulates them, that's not surprising.

I couldn't see a link on the homepage to the moving images that dannyboy referred to though?

Richard T

[Bealman]

Yeah, that Hitler one is interesting, isn't it.

Written in teacherspeak, though.... I know, I was one! 

[Graham]

well followed the link and got stuck looking around for a couple of hours. Then thought must close this down or I will be here all day. very interesting.

[GoesWhenReady]

This is a great resource, gonna be browsing around for a while now. Thanks for sharing with us all.