The Robot Rail Layer (1930)

Item title reads The robot raillayer. put in service novel British designed and made rail track layer it picks up old and lays half a mile of new track in a working day Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. L, S of the giant machine moving along the tracks, it looks like a cross between a bridge and a conveyor belt M, S as it brings the old rail up on ropes and stores it underneath itself. M, S as the new rail is moved along on a conveyor belt to the end of the machine and lowered onto the railway. Various shots as the rails are pulled into place and attached to the next section, M, S as a man uses a big spanner to tighten the join. C, U of a circular saw cutting through the excess wood at the side. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters histor