| SCOTCH EXPRESS WRECKED Steam train ‘The Royal Scot’ crashes in Bedfordshire kill | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5446 |
| Catalog #: | 243713 | |
| Clip Number: | 243713-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 31/25 | |
| Timecode: | 01.00.09 - 01.02.57 | |
| Location: | Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Train Wrecks LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK | |
| Description: | GAZETTE “Leighton Buzzard. Scotch Express Wrecked - 6 killed and many injured in appalling disaster to ‘The Royal Scot’.” Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Chunks of wrecked train are lifted off the tracks by a crane following a crash. People look on as work is done on the wreckage. Police and volunteers carry away a stretcher. Many of the workmen stop and look at the stretcher passes. Pan across wrecked carriages. Various shots of wreckage - the carriages appear to have been torn apart. CU LMS logo (London Midland Scottish railways). | |
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