North Wales Train Smash

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1108A

Date Released

31 Aug 1950

Date submitted

28 Aug 1950

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Korea - Atrocity Eye-Witnesses
2. 2North Wales Train Smash
3. 3Mrs Sara’s Quads
4. 4Silverstone Disappointment
5. 5Britain Shines in European Games
6. 6Baby Princess Named
7. *Barry Stages Swimming Championships
8. *Cowal Games

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: North Wales Train Smash. DESCRIPTION: The Irish Mail from Holyhead to Euston becomes a mass of distorted wreckage when it ran into another locomotive near Penmaenmawr, North Wales. Considering the large number of passengers aboard which amounted to 520, the casualty list was very light. SHOTLIST: KS MS wreckage of carriage. Various shots of wrecked train, carriages strewn about. Men burning with electric burners. Stretchers carried away. Elevated GV of wrecked train. CU name of station Penmaenmawr.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Cardiff or Glasgow.

Keywords

Railways; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Penmaenmawr

Card file number

54252

Credits:

Camera

James Humphries

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

71

Story extras:

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