Many Killed In Train Wreck 1951

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Full title reads: "Many Killed In Train Wreck".

Weedon, Lancashire. A train crash kills several people and injures many more.

GV Train wreckage. GV Train wreckage. MS Man using oxyacetylene burner among wreckage. GVs of wreckage. LS Train tunnel. MS Ruined train carriages. MS Crane...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
48190
Sort Number:
51/077
Time in/Out:
01:36:07:00 / 01:37:01:00
Canister:
51/77
Film ID:
1475.28
Issue Date:
24/09/1951

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