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The Wrecker (1929) More at IMDbPro »

• The film was made with extensive cooperation from the Southern Railway (of England); many of their engines and locations are seen.
  
  
• The SR staged the climactic train wreck one Sunday near Herriard, on their Basingstoke - Alton branch line. The passenger cars seen are old enough ones that they were gaslit; the gas cylinders were emptied before the crash to avoid a fire hazard. The tracks were cleared and repaired in time for service to resume on Monday morning.
  
  
• The crash was filmed by 22 cameras, and some of the footage not used in this film was incorporated into Seven Sinners (1936)
  
  

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