8mm Footage ' Steam, Diesel and Electric Trains in UK and Amsterdam's Tramway'

Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Royal Albert Bridge in Saltash; Paignton and Kingswear train on coastal route; Copy Pit line (Todmorden to Burnley); Bournemouth central, locomotive 34004 Yeovil station; 73001 and 75073; Moorgate station and its widened lines; Leeds city station shows 42196 passing; Holyhead and Brymbo tour; 9630 is seen passing, also a signal box, then Blue Peter 60532 locomotive in a station with the train plate ‘A.R.E.S Holyhead Brymbo Special’; South Lancashire tour between Wigan and Liverpool Riverside; Lanarkshire Yeomanry 45154 leaving a station; Manchester Central station ; Great Northern goods warehouse; footage of last days of trolleybuses in Manchester and Rotherham; locomotive 68006; Crich Tramway village; tramway cars seen from outside, inside carriage, inside driver’s cabin and close-ups of pieces of mechanism (overhead electric cable); Amsterdam Tramway; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Manx Electric Railway (Derby Castle terminus) and Ramsey Pier tram; Southend Pier tramway; 70013 Oliver Cromwell locomotive; 2226, and 41241 & 72 (30072) at Haworth, apparently shortly after the re-opening of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; locomotive No. 10 G. H.Wood; Tal-y-Llyn (Talyllyn) railway; locomotive named Sir Haydn; Garsdale station and signal box.

Details

Category:
Moving Images
Object Number:
2021-1599/3
Materials:
acetate, plastic (unidentified) and cardboard
type:
8 mm film
credit:
Mavis Dagmar Green