Station Issue Title Pathe Pictorial Goes… 1947

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London.

Various good shots of crowds at Paddington railway station. People walk along platforms with suitcases, board trains marked 'Great Western Railways', look at displays in small station shops. A porter wheels a trolley piled with cases. A small boy stands on the platform...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43946
Sort Number:
NP 158
Time in/Out:
01:19:04:00 / 01:19:34:00
Canister:
NP 158
Film ID:
1331.07
Issue Date:
22/09/1947

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