rescuing a stranded goods train in the Pennines during a cold winter
Sunday Cinema - t'is brass monkeys up in the Pennines
for those who haven't seen it this is a British Transport Film Library Classic - hence the embed. Just right with a nice warm drink!
"Snowdrift at Bleath Gill is a 1955 BTF documentary directed by Kenneth Fairbairn. The 10-minute-long film presents a first-hand account of a team of British Railway workmen freeing a g oods 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 (dinglbat land) and Yorkshire Westmoreland. A fine example of an industrial documentary , the British Film Institute call it; One of the most outstanding films of its kind" - can't get much bet