Title:RESTORATION OF THE RAILWAY NETWORK IN NORMANDY (PART 2) BAYEUX [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 70-2
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Summary: As part of an Allied-sponsored rehabilitation of those parts of the Normandy communications network which are in British and US hands, a 7th Army Troops Engineers unit restores a section of Bayeux's road and railway system.
Description: I. On the southern outskirts of the city at St Loup Hors, sappers serving with the 72nd Field Company Royal Engineers prepare to bridge a gap over the Caen-Cherbourg railway created by the destruction of a road bridge by the Royal Air Force on D- Day. Military traffic can be seen using an earth and rubble bypass built by the Germans over the railway. A step is cut into the abutments on each side of the gapped bridge which will support the ends of the two Class 40 Bailey bridges allotted to the site. Sappers assemble the components for one of the Baileys and push it across the sixty foot wide gap on steel rollers.
II. Engineers start to clear the railway line. With both bridges in position, sappers build up the approach roads and reinforce the old bridge's existing fabric. Civilian and British and US military traffic is using the two one-way Baileys while a mobile excavator and a bulldozer start to demolish the German bypass.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Carpenter, L (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers, Field Coy 72 (regiment/service)
Keywords: reconstruction, British: Caen-Cherbourg railway (object name)
reconstruction, French: Caen-Cherbourg railway (object name)
demolition, British - obsolescence: bypass road (object name)
engineering, military, British: bridge building (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: excavator (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: bulldozer (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 4/7/1944 = 5/7/1944 (event)
Saint-Loup-Hors, Calvados, France (geography)
Caen-Cherbourg Railway, Bayeux, Calvados, France (geography)
