Railway Breakdown Crew At Work (1941)

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Railway Breakdown Crew at Work.



M/Ss Signal men working levers in signal box. M/Ss Local steam passenger trains passing camera. Various good shots of repair gangs at work on bombed section of railway track. They fill bomb crater and replace sleepers, etc. Various shots of railway workers using cutters and cranes removing a wrecked signal gantry from across main line track. Several shots of wrecked rolling stock. More good shots of railwaymen at work on bomb damaged track also aided by heavy lifting equipment.
FILM ID:1633.13

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