LMS Engine Shed 

Filmed on Longsight Motive Power Dept., Manchester. Shed Code 9A. My late uncle worked there throughout steam and into moden traction.

I assume this was a training film, a very good idea and a new one in the 1940s. Such work used to be taught hands on and it would actually take years, working with a number of senior enginemen to know all you needed to know. These films may not have shortened that training period much but they would have standardized the routines and helped with sloppiness. There is a kind of Blue Collar romance to Worker films, even today, seeing good men doing good work is always enjoyable and really does encourage excellence. That's personal experience.

Great films .over 5 million tons of coal can't get my head round that

Think of the money saved when diesel engines arrived.

I also have a Hardback Book called The Railway Policeman. The Story of the Constable on the Track. By J. R. WHITBREAD.

I have the Hardback DORLING KINDERSLEY DK EYEWITNESS GUIDES Book of TRAIN. Discover the story of railways - from the days of steam to the high - speed, sophisticated trains of today. In association with THE NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM.

Does anyone know about what year this film was made?

When people spoke proper english

cheers!