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100 YEARS AGO APRIL 1924

First ever film shown on a British train service

A CINEMA film was shown for the first time on a British passenger train on March 12.

The‘cinema train’was the down ‘Scotsman’, leaving King’s Cross at 10 am. The saloon in which the film was shown had been

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