A short documentary about the Balvano Train Disaster of 1944 - one of the most deadly accidents ever to take place on any railway in the world...
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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:38 - Background
► 04:31 - The Balvano Train Disaster
► 08:36 - The Aftermath
*MUSIC:* 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
*SOURCES:* 📑
► “Titanic of train disasters: Italy finally commemorates hushed-up wartime tragedy that killed more than 600 people” by Nick Squires, published by the Telegraph, March 2017. Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/02/titanic-train-disasters-italy-finally-commemorates-hushed-up/
► “Italy: Death Train” published by Time Magazine, April 1951. Link: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,814495,00.html
► “The Fate of the Black Market Express” by John Wolford, published by HubPages, April 2019. Link: https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Fate-of-the-Black-Market-Express
► “Balvano” by Antonio Bruno, published by Terredamare, June 2022. Link: https://terredamare.com/comuni/balvano
► “The Balvano Disaster” published by Italy on This Day, March 2021. Link: https://www.italyonthisday.com/2021/03/the-balvano-disaster.html
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