Original 8mm amateur film, reel 8, railway footage, Black 5 and other locomotives

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: A4 60007 at a siding. GWR small Prairie passing. 60007 moving off light engine past the engine shed. Standard class tank engine reversing light engine past several large blocks of flats on the Southern third rail system. Jinty tank engine pulling Black 5 44900 from engine shed. Black 5 44757 passing with goods train followed by Jubilee 45654 with passenger train. Black 5 passing with goods train. K1 62007 passing through a valley with passenger train. Shot filmed from a moving car, K1 passing along an embankment. 62007 departing a station. V2 passing with passenger train. Black 5 45134 departing a junction station with passenger train carrying a headboard, class 25 standing on an adjoining track. The Waverly headboard being attached to Black 5. Shots from Black 5 footplate passing along a mainline, including shots of the crew.

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.