Pathe Film Breakdown gang

[Bryan]

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/railw ... kdown-gang

Any ideas as to location?
Newcastle possibly.

A few decent shots of an NE Ballast brake.

Collision damaged coach of some description.
All on a very foggy day.

[Bryan]

And another showing the results of a Collision at Goswick
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/scott ... ss-crashes

[mick b]

Very grim, shame the cameraman was obsessed with the signals . I think the van was attached to looks like Leyton?

[PaulG]

With Leyton on the brake and J15 0-6-0 on the train passing an N7 0-6-2T I would suggest around Stratford Works

Paul

[StevieG]

.....Or perhaps a little to the south : Somewhere between/along Southern Junction - Abbey Mills - Thames Wharf Junction perhaps. I've a feeling I may have seen that particular '2-way' bracket signal on a signal diagram at some time; and difficult to say with any certainty but, yes, I think the signals might be in configurations of GE origin.

[Bryan]

I take it then that NE would still be applied to the vehicle if it was from Leyton?
Was there a depot there?
Any ideas as to which accident the coach was involved in?

[52D]

After a quick look at the film the first loco has a prominent Westo cylinder then the breakdown crane definitely Leyton on the van. I wonder if it was a wartime film recovering bomb damaged stock. BTW the previous Goswick film shows a WD carrying a 77 xxx number, we suspect it could have been one of two allocated to Tweedmouth at the time which were still carrying their WD numbers.