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Snowdrift at Bleath Gill is a British film of genre Documentary with Deryck Guyler

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)

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Length 10minutes
Rating70% 3.5005253.5005253.5005253.5005253.500525

Snowdrift at Bleath Gill is a 1955 British Transport Film documentary directed by Kenneth Fairbairn. The 10 minute-long film presents a first-hand account of a team of British Railways workmen freeing a goods train stuck in a snowdrift on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway at Bleath Gill in the Pennines on the border between County Durham, Yorkshire and Westmoreland. A fine example of an industrial documentary, the British Film Institute call it "One of the most outstanding films of its kind".

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Deryck Guyler

(Himself - Narrator)
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