16mm film, original master 'Austrian Rack'

Filmed in 1961 on Achensee Railway, a rack railway (cog railway) and tourist attraction in Austria. Footage of steam train arriving at Achensee station, shots of driver on footplate, children, passenger on board carriage, train departing station, shots of the rack tracks filmed from moving train, shots taken from the lineside and from on board, journey through Austrian landscape, train conductor traveling standing on side of the carriage, refilling steam locomotives water tank, passenger boarding a boat on lake, close-up shot of locomotive No. 3, shunting and pushing two empty carriages. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent. Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds

This film is part of the Railway Roundabout collection donated by the makers of the programme, John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. They produced films on contemporary British and foreign railways for the BBC Children's programme 'Railway Roundabout, broadcast monthly between 1958 and 1962 on BBC Television. The commentary was created and broadcast live, so the original films in the collection are silent. The Railway Roundabout collection includes the original masters, prints, some offcuts and working material for Railway Roundabout programmes as well as other films (non-Railway Roundabout) made by the John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse and a small number of films made by others. The collection also includes the original un-edited audio recordings made between 1960 and 1965 by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse for the BBC radio programme Railway Roundup. Additionally, John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse were both photographers, their respective photographic collections are held by the National Railway Museum. This film is titled 'Austrian Rack' on title frame on film and 'Austrian Rack (Achensee Bahn)' on Railway Roundabout 16mm masters list and 'By Rack Railway to the Achensee' on BBC Programme Index. First broadcast on 12 September 1962 on BBC Television.