Giants of Steam

1963Directed by John Read

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Released: May 21, 1963
Runtime: 40m

About Giants of Steam

Documentary

Synopsis

The epic of the earliest days of Britain's railways and the men who built them. It concentrates on the achievements of George and Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built the first railway lines in the world in this country. Portraits, paintings, engraving and prints are used together with live shooting to evoke the atmosphere and illustrate the construction of the railways and the locomotives which ran on them.

Director: John Read

Principal cast

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John Slater

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