16mm film, print, Railway Roundabout film 'Welsh Narrow Gauge'

Filmed in 1960 on Talyllyn Railway, Vale of Rheidol Railway and Ffestiog Railway in Wales. Film starts with footage made on Tallylyn Railway, Towyn Wharf station, passenger boarding train, train led by a steam locomotive setting off station, train made of closed and open carriages, passenger seen chatting with driver when the train is stopped, passing through Abergynolwyn station, double headed train (Edward Thomas locomotive), shunting locomotive No. 6, train approaching single line, close-up shots of tracks, Talyllyn Railway informatin/notice board. Footage of the Vale of Rheidol Railway, passenger queue at booking office, family with young children boarding on train, men chatting next to 'Llywelyn' locomotive No. 8 , 'Owain Glyndŵr' No. 7 locomotive pulling passenger train across road with signalman controlling traffic, water tank refill for No. 8, shots on board the train taken from the window, shots taken from lineside, Devils Bridge station. Footage on Ffestiniog railway coupling new locomotive to train, various lineside shots of train passing in landscape, water tank refill, train passing on Britannia bridge to Porthmadog, oiling wheels on Fairlie's patent locomotive, train passing by Britannia Foundry. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. First broadcast on 17 August 1960 on BBC Television. This is a print (show copy), speed 16 fps. Duration: 8 minutes 30

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.