A Railway Collision (also known as A Railroad Wreck) is a 1900 British short silent drama film, directed by Walter R. Booth and produced by Robert W. Paul.
[2] The film depicts a stretch of single-track railway, along which a slow train runs through a mountainous terrain on an embankment on a lake and a yacht with a tunnel in the background.
Brooke notes that "unlike some of his other films of the period, Booth does not attempt to enhance the effect by intercutting obviously full-scale material, though his successors would undoubtedly have added a shot inside a carriage full of screaming passengers.
"[4] A Railway Collision is one of the first examples of implementing the technique of recreating large-scale disasters into a much smaller one using miniature scale models.
[4] It had a lasting influence, attracting numerous imitators,[6] and the technique of using model trains to represent real ones was used in many subsequent British films.