Trent Valley Train Crash AKA Trent Valley… 1946

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Title reads: "Trent Valley Rail Crash".

Lichfield, Staffordshire.

M/S of Pathe cameraman Kenneth Gordon getting into small aeroplane. Various shots of wrecked carriages piled high on rail track with men clearing away debris. The Fleetwood to London fish train smashed into a local...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44937
Sort Number:
46/002
Time in/Out:
01:12:18:00 / 01:13:03:00
Canister:
46/2
Film ID:
1372.10
Issue Date:
07/01/1946

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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