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Title: ELECTRIC TRAINS

Reference number: 5526

Date: 1960, November (?)

Production company: [ Templar Films]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.15 mins

Description: Film following an electric train along part of its route, including shots of drivers' cab and Hyndland station.

Possibly for a BBC news piece regarding the inauguration of the electric suburban train system (the blue trains) in Glasgow in November 1960 – the first railway electrification in Scotland.

Shotlist: tracking shot from train; man consults Finnieston section of signals board?, speaking into telephone; ints. control room (0.35) electric train passing slowly through 'train wash' [similar to car wash]; c/u BR roundel (1.31) c/u Hyndland section of control board; gvs Hyndland station, including Station Master (1.49) gvs driver's cab in train; c/u sign "Balloch Central"; tracking shots from train (3.15)