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31/12/1955 Documentary 0h 10m
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Overview

A freight train travelling between Kirkby and Barnard Castle has become snowbound in the Westmoreland hills. The Motive Power, Operating and Engineering Departments go to work with snowploughs to reach the trapped train.

  1. Ken Fairbairn

    Director

  2. Paul Le Saux

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Deryck Guyler

    Himself - Narrator

  2. Ben Williams

    Himself - Narrator

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-04-04
A snow drift manages to trap not just a freight train, but the two snow-plough trains sent to rescue it. Sustained human effort is required to free one of these ploughs so it can be used to help free the engine and it's trucks stuck 1370-ft above sea level in several more feet of thick snow. It takes a team several days of twenty-four hour labour, coughing and spluttering as they work in sub zero temperatures, before they can make enough headway to combine with the freed plough engine to free the freight train - some 4 days after it was first stuck! This short film really does depict just how ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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