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| Picture No | 11680178 |
| Date | May 1926 |
| Description | Incidents including train-wrecking: General Strike 1926 |
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Several scenes in England including: Liverpool Street Station crowds of commuters trying to get to work. Vandalism in Northumberland where fish-plates and bolts had been removed from the rails, under the restaurant car of the 'Flying Scotsman'. Also in Northumberland, the attempt to wreck the 'Flying Scotsman' carrying over 300 passagers, near Cramlinton, showing the break in the rails with the overturned engine (right) and the next coach (removed to the side of the line on the left). Chiswick garage of the L.G.O.C. where the London volunteer bus-drivers and conductors slept during the strike. Recreation for The London Volunteer bus-drivers, conductors and other workers: A dance in the L.G.O.C. depot at Chiswick, during the strike.
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| Source | Photographs by L. N. A, Topical I.B and Photopress in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 May 1926, page 865 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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