Media item

Europe's biggest train wash system put into use

Week number: 77-47

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:43
Publication date:
1 January 1977
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
BG_10299

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'.