Original 8mm amateur film, reel 14, railway footage, Tyne and Wear on East Coast Main Line (ECML)

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: A1 60154 Bon Accord locomotive departing Newcastle station southbound. A1 60155 departing northbound with another passenger train. V3 67678 arriving light engine. Whitley Bay station sign, shots from locomotive footplate, travelling down part of the Tyneside Electric System, then on single track branch line. Shots of footplate crew at work. B1 locomotive passing along a stretch of mainline, A4 60001 Sir Ronald Mathews. A4 returning with a passenger train. V2 60962 passing light engine, A1 60127 with passenger train. A3 hauling passenger train down a stretch of the East Coast Main Line (ECML), followed by 60106. A1 60155 at Newcastle and V3 with passenger train. Black 5 backing on to a passenger train, departing towards Carlisle. V3 67678 arriving from the north with passenger train and V2 departing in the opposite direction.

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.