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Europe's biggest train wash system put into use
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Week number: 77-47
Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.
The Dutch Railways have put a movable washing installation for cleaning trains into use in Leidschendam. SHOTS: engine driver cleans the windscreen of a train; engine driver drives his train into the so-called train shower; the outside of the train is cleaned by brush machines moving alongside the train in the new washing installation in Leidschendam; foreign workers clean the compartment by swiping the litter, hosing down the compartment and washing the garbage can (comment by Bloemendaal: "Luckily, we have our foreign workers for all these types of work"); clean compartment; train passes railway crossing with waiting cars and a sign reading 'WAIT another CLEAN train can pass'.
- Creator:
- Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
- Publication date:
- 1 January 1977
- Length:
- 01:43
- Type:
- video
- Original format:
- User:
- Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
