Powerful pictures taken at a mock rail crash at Bushey & Oxhey Station in 1968.
A child puts a comforting arm on a friend lying motionless while bodies lay strewn on the ground behind them at a 'train crash' made to look as realistic possible.
These powerful images were captured at a training exercise for the emergency services in the late 1960s. The extraordinary photos were taken by a Watford Observer photographer on February 26, 1968 during a mock rail accident staged at what was then called Bushey & Oxhey Station.Take a look through these pictures showing the apparent aftermath of a collision between a goods train and a passenger service as fire, police and medical personnel work through the wreckage to try and help those ‘victims’ who have ‘survived’ in scenes that were made to look as realistic as possible.
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