Shots of a sign for Dalbeath. A steam train arrives at the station. Shots of the train driver leaning on the train window. Shots of the train reversing past the control tower. Shots of the train going through the countryside. Shots of Castle Douglas train station and shots of Tarff, Kirkcudbright and Dumfries station as the train drives through it. Shots of the side of a train with the sign: “The Thames Clyde Express” as the train sits in a large station. Shots of a train driving through Dumfries station. Shots of Carlisle Train Station and a train driving through it. Men push around what looks like an ice cream trolley in the station, the conductor blows the whistle and the train leaves. Shots of a sign for Windermere train station. Shots of a ferry and shots of the coastal landscape. Shots of sign for Ambleside Pier. People get off the ferry. Shots of a small dog before shots of York train station. Shots of sign for the Railway Museum. Shots of a train arriving at York. Shots of a train the ‘Northumbrian’ going from Newcastle to King’s Cross

John Burnie (1946-2009) was an engineer and a lifelong railway enthusiast. He was a member of the Scottish Railway Preservation Society and he contributed to the development of the Scottish Railway Museum at Bo’ness, where he became a curator. The films and sound recordings were made mostly in the 1960s, when John and his father travelled around the UK on steam trains and John made films of these journeys.