Express Train Smash (1929)

Item title reads - Express train smash. Driver and fireman killed in head-on collision at 50 miles per hour with goods train. Near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Various shots of the wreckage of the trains, derailed carriages lay on their side and cranes are in position to lift them. M/S of one carriage nearly on its side. Various shots of the smashed up carriages. M/S of crane attached to one engine while people stand in the foreground and watch. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984.