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Railway Traffic
Watching the trains go by on a summers day at Wood Green Station.
Non-Fiction 1898 1 mins Silent
Overview
A Stirling E1 2-4-0 locomotive passes the camera on the centre road down mainline with a through passenger train to the North. It is then followed by another northbound fast. A Kings Cross bound express passes as the North London commuter train to High Barnet pulls in to the platform.
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