Original 8mm amateur film, reel 6, family and railway footage, Newcastle area

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Shot from front carriage of DMU, passing along single track branch line past disused stations. DMU arriving at a rural station. Group of people filmed outside a house. Dog playing in garden. V3 67651 departing Newcastle Station. B1 passing King Edward Bridge South Junction followed by a V2. Q6 passing in the other direction with a goods train. WD 2-8-0 passing with a goods train. Shots filmed in the grounds of a large country house.

This film is part of a collection of 150 8mm films made by John Arnott-Brown, railway enthusiast and amateur filmmaker. John Arnott-Brown filmed the railways in the United Kingdom, mostly steam, between 1960 and 1982. A few films include footage of railways abroad, especially Europe (e.g. Portugal, Spain). The collection includes 5 larger 400 feet reels of edited footage, whilst the rest of the collection is made of small 50 feet reels of unedited footage.