Fully Fitted Freight 1957

If a passenger journey is romantic and evocative, a freight service is purely utilitarian - but also vital to the successful running of the economy. Here, an express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.
This film shows how an express freight train links manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain. The fast-moving fully-fitted freight train, the 4.48pm Bristol to Leeds provides a typical example of merchandise being transported at high speed by British Railways. We learn something, too, about the men who do the work as well as the goods they handle.