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130 results found for '"Railway accidents"' in Keywords.
Moorgate Tube Disaster - survivor describes ordeal (1975)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
Male survivor of the Moorgate Tube Disaster describes his escape from an underground train carriage following the crash at Moorgate Station on the Northern Line (28/02/75).
Granville rail disaster (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Douglas Cameron? interviews Tony Townsend? on the Granville rail disaster near Sydney in Australia and the rescue operation.
Taunton train fire (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the fatal Taunton sleeping car fire of 06/07/78, in which a number of rail passengers died, some of them locked into their carriages. Unidentified male reporter speaks to Nigel Musselwhite, Chief...
Taunton residents help train fire victims (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified female tells how she and other local residents ministered to survivors of the Taunton sleeping car fire of 06/07/78. She recounts how they took people into their homes, and describes their...
Taunton train fire (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on the fatal Taunton sleeping car fire of 06/07/78, in which 11 rail passengers (at this point) died. We hear from the House of Commons, where Bill Rodgers offers condolences to the families of the...
Taunton woman tells of train fire rescue (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified Taunton woman tells how, after being woken by thumping noises and seeing flames, she helped neighbours to rescue fire survivors from train carriages. She talks of the fear and shock of the...
Moorgate underground crash (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Peter Gould reports on a new investigation into the Moorgate underground train crash and theory that the crash occurred due to the suicide of the driver Leslie Newson; interviews with Laurence Marks,...
Train crash near Brighton (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Assistant Divisional Fire Officer, George Hammond, on the scene at a train crash near Brighton after two passenger trains collided (19/12/78). Male reporter not identified. (Five people were...
Train crash near Brighton (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Sir Peter Parker, Chairman of British Rail, at the scene at a train crash near Brighton after two passenger trains collided (19/12/78). Male reporter not identified. (Five people were killed...
Report 78 (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Steve Harvey presents Report 78, a look back at the year’s major political and social events around the world. Speakers include Khalid Hammami, wife of murdered PLO politician Said Hammami; Terry Parry,...