The second of two films tracing the history of the Great Westerm Railway up to nationalisation.
A Job for Life. In 1986 the historic Swindon Workshops, the heart of Brunei's Great Western Railway, joined the growing list of closed factories. Once Swindon's products were world famous, its 14,000 employees justly proud of their skills. Just before the closure was announced, Peter Brown visited Swindon to see what survived of the old GWR spirit. Later he returned, to find a bitter and disillusioned workforce. 'What's happening now is that a few people in power are robbing this country of our natural heritage - oil, coal, railways, National Health, everything,' says one. (R)