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Terrible Rail Disaster 1935
Description
Title reads: "Terrible Rail Disaster at Welwyn Garden City".
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
Various shots of massive railway crash. Broken carriages are strewn across the tracks. Workmen attempt to clear the debris. Two steam trains crashed just near the station. Nearly 70 people...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 85002
- Sort Number:
- UNI GAZ 021
- Time in/Out:
- 01:43:59:00 / 01:45:00:00
- Canister:
- UNI GAZ ROLL 21
- Film ID:
- 2957.40
- Issue Date:
- 1935
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The crash occurred on 15 June 1935, enabling you to reduce the clip's current date range of 1930-39. In all 13 people were killed and 85 injured.
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