British Jet Snow Plough 1947 (video)

[John Ashworth]

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/briti ... now-plough

Grantham, Lincolnshire.

Various shots of the snow plough with two jets fixed to the front. Various shots of it in action, moving along the railway line sending clouds of snow flying before it.

Cataloguer's note: date of item: 4/3/1947.

[M. Hardy-Randall]

I understand that this method of clearing the tracks of snow was very effective, a little too effective as it sometimes removed the ballast as well. Which was not the object of the exercise, and for this reason was abondoned.