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The "One In A Million" Chance! 1933
Description
Full title reads: "Wales. The 'one in a million' chance! Landslide strikes passenger train - hurling the engine 100 feet over the cliffs to the rocks below."
Near Barmouth, Wales.
Men work to clear soil and rocks from coastal railway line. The fall was caused by a landslide. Pan...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 6041
- Sort Number:
- 33/020
- Time in/Out:
- 01:30:54:00 / 01:31:43:00
- Canister:
- 33/20
- Film ID:
- 699.26
- Issue Date:
- 09/03/1933
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