Ken Loach's The Navigators stars Dean Andrews, Tom Craig, Joe Duttine, Steve Huison, Venn Tracey and Sean Glenn as a close-knit team of track side workers forced to cope with the effects of British Rail being broken into malfunctioning pieces.
An accumulation of small incidents and comic episodes depict the devastating consequences for both the workers and their families of "flexible working" and dramatic cost-cutting.
Written by the late Rob Dawber, who worked for the railways for eighteen years, The Navigators is a bleakly humourous, extremely powerful and emotional story of how fundamentally decent people can be forced into an intolerable situation by circumstances outside their control.
