Original 8mm amateur film, reel 7, railway footage, Portugal

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Shots from steam locomotive footplate, passing alongside a large lake. Two locomotives at a station, locomotive Portuguese Railways (CP) number 095, taking on water. Shots from the footplate, train continuing journey, passing freight train heading in opposite direction. Passing a diesel locomotive at a station stop. The engine crew cooking. Steam hauled passenger train hauled by CP number 094 passing. Train continuing alongside a lake before passing through a tunnel, arriving at a large station. CP number 294 at a large station. Close up shots of details on the locomotive. Mallet type tank engine passing with a goods train. Shots from the footplate of a locomotive passing alongside a hill, passing by a lake. The driver filmed stopping train at station.

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.