The Wrecker is a British play, written in 1924 by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale, and filmed in 1928-29.
The Wrecker ran for 165 performances at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End.
It later played at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in 1928, where it ran for 40 performances.
[5] It featured a spectacular crash between a passenger train and a Foden steam lorry stuck on a level crossing.
The scene was filmed at Herriard on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, in one take, and destroyed both the steam wagon and the SECR F1 Class locomotive.