Engine Attempts Suicide

Series

Series Name

Daily Sketch Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

595-2

Date Released

22 Jan 1923

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1A Double Distinction
2. 2Winter Joys in Switzerland
3. 3Corinthians V Brighton Replay
4. 4Avalanche of Lambs
5. 5Engine Attempts Suicide
6. *Students’ Day

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Tired of work it throws itself over an embankment at Glasgow." Shots of the wreckage, and of the engine being lifted on to the rails again.

Keywords

Railways; Accidents and disasters

Length of story (in feet)

58

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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