The "One In A Million" Chance! 1933

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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...

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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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