Holiday Tragedy (1933)

Full title reads: “Nantes, France. Holiday Tragedy. 14 dead and hundreds injured as train packed with holiday makers, mostly working class people, jumps the rails at 60 .“ Nantes, France. Pan across site of railway crash. Locomotive and carriage parts are strewn across the line. Various shots of smashed trains. The carriages are totally devastated. Men are moving about looking over the damage. 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. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé
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