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How railways helped celebrate Queen Victoria's Jubilee
In late 1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee was captured on film. But it was the railways which allowed the film to be seen by a bigger number of people than ever before. The film footage of this major national event was processed on a specially adapted train by Richard James Appleton, a Bradford pioneer of filming.
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