8mm Footage 'Rainhill 150, trams and trains in England, Scotland, Wales, Amsterdam, France, Italy and Switzerland'

Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. 150th anniversary of the Rainhill trials on 25th May 1980; spectators’ area; locomotives exhibited during the cavalcade. Midland Railway 4-2-2 No.673; LNWR Saddle tank; LNWR No.790 Hardwick with two coaches; NBR No.673 B Maude with coach; Midland Railway No.1000 with dinning carriage; LMS 0-6-0 No.4027 with coach; LMS Black Five No.5000 followed by a replica of Novelty hauled on a Well wagon; National Coal Board (Bold Colliery) Austerity No.7 Robert; LMS Ivatt Class 4 No.43106 with coach; LMS Jubilee Class No.5690 Leander with coach and buffet car; LNER V2 Class No.4771 Green Arrow with coach and buffet car; LNER A3 No. 4772 Flying Scotsman; LNER A4 Pacific No.4498 Sir Nigel Gresley; SR Merchant Navy Class 35028 Clan Line fitted with Golden Arrow headboard and coaches; LMS Princess Coronation Class No.46229 Duchess of Hamilton with coaches; BR Standard Class 4 tank 2-6-4T No.80079; BR Standard Class 9F No.92220 Evening Star; diesel-hydraulic British Rail Class 52 D1062 Western Courier; a yellow track machine; diesel Class 25/3 No.25296 hauling a 10 Ton car transporter and further diesel hauling freight; diesel-electric Class 47 No.47581 Great Eastern; Deltic No.55015 (D9015) Tulyar hauling two electrics, Class 86/2 No.86214 Sans Pareil and Class 76 EM1 No.26020; HST train (High Speed Train); an Intercity APT train (Advanced Passenger Train); working replica of Rocket with coach; working replica of Sans Pareil with coach; Lion with a yellow first class carriage of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway; LMS Princess Coronation Class No.46229 Duchess of Hamilton followed by the Novelty replica on a Well wagon; S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 No.13809 (now 53809) with coaches; Midland Railway No.1000 with coach; LNWR 0-6-2 coal tank No.1054 with coaches; LNWR No.790 Hardwick; Midland Railway 4-2-2 No.673.

Heaton Park Tramway; tram No.765; Crich tramway village; Blackpool double-decker trams; Glasgow double-decker tram, No. 1797; Amsterdam Trams; Switzerland, Italy and France; metre-gauge railway managed by the Swiss FART (Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi), Locarno to Domodossola line. Oberalp BVZ trains (Brig-Visp-Zermatt-Bahn) around Brig and Furka in Switzerland; SMC funicular between Sierre and Crans-Montana.; Martigny–Orsières railway; Sembrancher Junction station; Gornergrat railway to Zermatt, near the summit of the Gornergrat; Zurich; Ffestiniog railway; Far North line; International Garden Festival in Liverpool, with its miniature steam railway; Great Central Railway at Rothley; locomotives: Robert Nelson No.4 and GCR Class 11F No. 506 Butler Henderson.

Details

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