Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)

Directed by

Ken Fairbairn

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A crew of railway workers dig a goods train out of a heavy snowdrift in the English Pennines. The film shows their step by step efforts to clear the track and get the train moving again.

factualobservationalearnestquietmethodicalretroworkmanlikegritty

What happens

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 Westmorland. A fine example of an industrial documentary, the British Film Institute call it "One of the most outstanding films of its kind". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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