DECONTAMINATION AND REPAIRS TO DAMAGED TRACK [Main Title]

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  • Title: DECONTAMINATION AND REPAIRS TO DAMAGED TRACK [Main Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 109
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  • Summary: Staged film showing equipment, precautions and procedures followed by a Southern Railway anti-gas team.
  • Description: The exercise deals with a simulated gas attack on railway lines (at West Hoathly, Sussex). A specially equipped train and crew are used to deal with the incident. (Reel 1 - 961 ft; Reel 2 957 ft.)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BTF 109
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 109)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Southern Railway Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Southern Railway (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: society, British - precautionary (object name) training, British civilian - specialist: gas decontamination procedures (object name) transport, British - rail (object name) West Hoathly, Sussex, UK (geography) Instruction (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1918 ft; Running time: 21 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 109

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