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The popular Railways Remembered programme made a welcome return to the Palace Theatre, Newark.

The evening’s presentation, hosted by Rob Foxon, was entitled The 1930s and looked at the railways under the big companies of LMS, LNER, Southern and GWR. Between these four they spent around £450m from that decade up to the second world war.

The first film, London Terminie, was shot in 1929 and featured King’s Cross, Paddington, Victoria, Waterloo and Euston stations.

Very little film survives of Scotland’s railways so the next section was a treat, showing Dundee Docks and Arbroath in good quality black and white film captured in 1931.

The first half was brought to a halt with the iconic Night Mail, the GPO-produced documentary about the travelling post office.

Highlights of the second half included 1933 scenes of Rugby and Leamington Spa and the now closed narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstable railway.

The final film for the packed audience was the 1937 classic Coronation Scot, featuring the streamline LMS express train — PAS.



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