8mm Footage 'Trams, Steam Locomotives and Diesel Railcars on the Isle of Man'
- Made:
- 1979-1982 in Isle of Man
Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Manx Electric Railway (MER) and the Isle of Man Railway (IMR); tramcar No.1 with trailer 37, from the MER with “Douglas and Laxey Electric Tramway” written on the side of the tram; Bulgham Bay and Dhoon Queery; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Laxey wheel (Lady Isabella waterwheel). Tramcars No.1 and 4 at summit; No.6 and 3 are filmed from inside a tram passing by; Dhoon and Dreemskerry; the Isle of Man Railway; diesel railcar stopped at Douglas and the locomotive No.13, Kissack, leaving the station; red steam locomotive No.4, Loch; locomotive No.11, Maitland, and a Foxdale coach; Douglas horse drawn tramway features two horse trams, No.14 (double-decker) and No.12. The first one is baring a poster for the “Horse tram centenary”; tramcar No.5 passing, also the trailer No.72 being pulled out of a shed by a blue truck; poster for the ‘Cavalcade of electric cars’; IMR, in Douglas, locomotive No.12 Hutchinson, a diesel railcar, and locomotive No.13, Kissack.
Details
- Category:
- Moving Images
- Object Number:
- 2021-1599/7
- Materials:
- acetate, plastic (unidentified) and cardboard
- type:
- 8 mm film
- credit:
- Mavis Dagmar Green