Train driver dies in night sleeper crash

Title

Train driver dies in night sleeper crash

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Dec 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:01:53

Description

Report on the death of train driver William Plummer in an accident on the London Euston-to-Glasgow express service (09/12/82). Speakers include: British Rail spokesman Dick Saunderson(?); train driver Melvyn Hunter. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Dick Saunderson(?); Melvyn Hunter

Keywords

Deaths; British Rail; Railway transport; Trains; Railway accidents; Train drivers; Bedfordshire; Leighton Buzzard; William Plummer; Anthony Hewitt

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