Train Crash

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2196A

Date Released

8 Jul 1971

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Train Crash
2. 2Princess Anne Opens Erskine Bridge
3. 3Regimental Amalgamation
4. 4Scout Car Races
5. 5Wimbledon Tennis Finals

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Train Crash. DESCRIPTION: Film of the train crash disaster near Chester in which a boy and a girl and 30 other children were injured when their school excursion train plunged off the rails at 60 miles an hour. Within forty-eight hours another train ploughed into a derailed goods truck at Surbiton. SHOTLIST: GV wreckage of train laying on its side. LV pan ditto. LV railway lines partly buckled. SV wrecked carriage. SV man cutting steel girders. GV railway lines. SV wrecked end of carriage. GV wreckage & crane lifting bogie section. SV bogie section being lowered into field. LV wreckage.

Keywords

Railways; Accidents and disasters

Locations

Chester

Card file number

97274

Credits:

Camera

Denis White

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

53

Story extras:

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