The Finishing Line

"Good morning boys and girls. It has been brought to my notice that some of you have been playing on the railway again. You are old enough to know that the railway is no place for any kind of games...."

A schoolboy's daydream of a fantasy sports day in a railway location, where the events are acts of vandalism and trespass, is used to show the injuries and death which can be caused by such behaviour.

Keywords: railway, accidents, sports day, schoolchildren, St John's Ambulance

Introductory Sequence (4:41)

The First Race

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To find out more, see the analysis of The Finishing Line on BFI Screenonline.

The Finishing Line is available in full on the BFI DVD release British Transport Films Collection Volume 7: The Age of the Train and is available from the BFI Filmstore.

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