New Safety Device 1965

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Title reads: "NEW SAFETY DEVICE".

New safety device installed by London-Midland for trains on St. Pancras to Bedford route: invention automatically brings train to halt when it passes a red signal.

L/S train moving slowly past camera. Travel shot from cab as train goes along. C/U...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
55402
Sort Number:
65/042
Time in/Out:
01:27:15:00 / 01:28:16:00
Canister:
65/42
Film ID:
1802.18
Issue Date:
24/05/1965

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