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1928 UK DISASTERS: 22 people killed in Darlington train crash
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0:43Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1928
Location: England, United Kingdom
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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CAPTION - TERRIBLE RAILWAY TRAGEDY - AT DARLINGTON , 22 KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN HEAD- ON CRASH BETWEEN EXCURSION AND PARCELS TRAIN
Darlington , Co Durham. England , June `1928
Pan across railway tracks ,men trying to clear wreckage of steam trains/ crane in the background / man climbing into window of carriage and using saw / front of one of the steam trains /railway workers looking at wreckage
CAPTION - THE WORST DISASTER FOR 22 YEARS , WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE GRETNA SMASH IN 1915
One railway carriage shunting onto another / men /investigators / view from inside damaged railway carriage / crane lifting wreckage /side of parcels waggon with "NE "
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