Severn Valley Railway

Coal touched all our lives, as this issue of the cinemagazine demonstrates with items on a miner's wife turned mayor, a Coal Board chess team and more.

This poetic Free Cinema documentary, filmed near Manchester, reflects on the changing world of the engineman.

Countless men, women and children spill out on to the screen from "The Plant" at the heart of the Yorkshire railway town.

With the horrific effects of gas warfare still fresh in the memory, rubberised men – like extras from a 1950s British sci fi movie – prepare for more, with 1940s attention to detail.

Come and see Rocket 150, and visit a selection of railway locations, past and preserved.

An all-male Edwardian crowd is filmed leaving work in the north western town.

With cameras and light meters at the ready the Bridgnorth Camera Club takes to the lanes of Shropshire.

Francis Moore, known as Old Moore, has been publishing his almanack since 1697 but who in his home town of Bridgnorth has ever heard of him?

A train driver is needed for Britain's only inland cliff railway. It's a feat of Victorian engineering at Bridgnorth in Shropshire.

With cameras at the ready the photographic club hit Shropshire - try not to get left behind Bill!

Come and see Rocket 150, and visit a selection of railway locations, past and preserved.

It's bustling with tourists during the Summer but out of season things are looking quite bleak in Bridgnorth.

Daniel Kokotajlo talks to Nia Childs about Starve Acre, his folk horror about a couple digging deep into grief in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and lead actor Faraz Ayub talk to Tomisin Adepeju about their magic realist drama.

Documentary exploring the BFI National Archive’s role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.

Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI national archive, explores the origins of a series of comic travelogues, and Michael Powell's involvement in making them.

Discover why Dan George of Northumbria University believes everyone should experience Oldboy at least once.

Trixie Parkin-Christie of Northumbria University offers fresh insight into why Wings of Desire remains essential viewing.