Railway history: 200 years of the steam locomotive
Railplane demonstration
Engineer and inventor George Bennie (1897-1952) demonstrating a model of his Railplane to visitors from Australia, around 1930. Photographs courtesy of Glasgow University Archives Service.
Links: The Scottish Screen Archive includes a
detailed description of a contemporary film
documentary about the Railplane Line, which opened in 1929.
Clips
from the film are accessible online from British Pathé [clips
require Windows
Media Player].
June 2004: Railway history: 200 years of the steam locomotive
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