Title:THE REHABILITATION OF THE RAILWAY NETWORK IN NORMANDY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 104-2
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Summary: Work continues on replacing the demolished Caen-Cherbourg railway bridge over the Orne at Caen. Also included are scenes at Courseulles, where locomotives are brought ashore as part of a programme to replace losses suffered by Normandy's rail network to its rolling stock.
Description: I. Having dismantled the last of the destroyed bridge from the rockers on its central pier, engineers serving with the 926th Bridging Company RE repair the railway line leading up to the river and erect overhead gantries for the launching of a unit construction bridge. Stanchions are built to reinforce one of the original bridge's stone abutments on the south bank.
II. On the 25th July, LCT 909 discharges two heavy bulldozer tractors, each towing a tracked flat-bed trailer carrying a WD diesel shunter, directly onto 'Juno' Beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Johnson, John Norman1909 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, French civilian - rail: locomotives and rolling stock (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT 909 (object name)
Orne (River), France (geography)
Caen, Calvados, France (geography)
Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
Normandy, France (geography)
