8mm Footage 'Trams, Steam Locomotives and a Diesel Railcar on the Isle of Man'

Made:
1975 in Isle of Man

Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Manx Electric Railway. Tramcar No.6; No.5 car of the Snaefell Mountain Railway; No.20 with trailer is passing a road crossing at Lonan; No.1 and trailer 59 passing on the tracks; open cars No.26 and 56 are featured at Laxey shed; water car with trailer is passing in the landscape of fields; locomotive- No.12, Hutchinson, on the Isle of Man Railway; Ballabeg, Castletown, Colby (with IMRSA special train), Port St Mary (level crossing), Port Erin Shed (also an old six-wheeler is filmed there); horse tramway in Douglas with two white tramcars, No.45 and another; tram driver chatting next to his stopped tramcar No.26 on the rails; Tramcar No.19 is filmed at dusk in Glen Mora; streets of Ramsey, Walpole Drive, Ballajora, Cornaa, Dhoon, Laxey, Lonan, Groudle, Douglas; trams at Derby Castle depot, including No.20, 26 and 23. The tramcar No.1; diesel railcar; inside of the driver’s cab, looking at the tracks, passing near Colby, Port St Mary and Port Erin; closing the Mill road level crossing after the locomotive has passed; tramcar No.1 with trailer is filmed at Onchan and a front shot shows No.9 at Groudle.

Details

Category:
Moving Images
Object Number:
2021-1599/6
Materials:
acetate, plastic (unidentified) and cardboard
type:
8 mm film
credit:
Mavis Dagmar Green