The “One In A Million“ Chance! (1933)

Full title reads: “Wales. The ’one in a million’ chance! Landslide strikes passenger train - hurling the engine 100 feet over the cliffs to the rocks below.“ Near Barmouth, Wales. Men work to clear soil and rocks from coastal railway line. The fall was caused by a landslide. Pan down to other men working and then to the foot of the cliffs to show smashed steam engine laying wrecked on the rocks. N.B. Miraculously the passenger coaches were left on the line when the locomotive was swept away. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as