Landslide Blocks Railway 1940

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Full title reads: "Landslide Blocks Railway".

Watford, Hertfordshire.

VS of rescue workers pulling the wreckage of a steam train from amidst a mound of mud into which the train had plunged after the embankment had collapsed onto the line. The men work amidst thick mud and in poor visibility....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20589
Sort Number:
40/012
Time in/Out:
01:17:56:00 / 01:18:20:00
Canister:
40/12
Film ID:
1035.15
Issue Date:
08/02/1940

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