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Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

6,4 /10 (5 Votes)
1955 EN 10 min

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.

Release date

31/12/1955

Votes

5

Popularity

0.3

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

10 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-04-04

⭐ 6

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 …

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