ACTUALITY. Troop train passing over the Modder River during the Boer War.

A train, with locomotives and armoured cars at each end, passes over a temporary bridge erected over the Modder River; Seaforth Highlanders are riding in coal trucks and the train passes towards the camera (30ft).

Note: Filmed by John Benett-Stanford, 8 December 1899, on the same occasion as LANCERS CROSSING THE MODDER RIVER (qv).

Refs: John Barnes, Filming the Boer War (1992), pp. 57 [illus.], 187, 293. National Film Archive, Catalogue, Part 1: silent News Films: N.55. Warwick cat. no. 5525.