Worst Dutch Train Crash 1962

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Title reads: "Worst Dutch Train Crash".

Harmelen, Utrecht, Holland (Netherlands).

Various shots scene of very bad rail crash: an express train to Rotterdam ploughed into another train. Railway men and soldiers are helping to rescue people from wreckage and retrieve bodies of 87 dead....

Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53095
Sort Number:
62/004
Time in/Out:
01:04:48:00 / 01:05:43:00
Canister:
62/4
Film ID:
1709.05
Issue Date:
11/01/1962

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  • The crash occurred on 8 January 1962.

    jamied 20th Apr 2012

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