16mm film, original master 'Festiniog Railway'

Offcuts, footage made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV or 'A Century of Steam' but not used in final edit, filmed by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. Footage includes scraped locomotives in scrap yard, 'The Ffolly' with builders’ plate Peckett & sons No. 2050, preserved carriages with first and third classes compartments. Ffestiniog railway, narrow gauge railway, carriages at station, double Fairlie steam locomotive (double-ended) arriving, passengers waiting on platform, passengers talking to driver on engine's cab, shots of steam train passing filmed from adjacent road, shot showing men on tracks waiting for train to pass filmed from high point. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent.

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.