Original 8mm amateur film, reel 16, Talyllyn Railway and Vale of Rheidol Railway

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1968 in Wales. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Steam roller reversing. Jubilee 5596 Bahamas approaching a large shed, shot from the footplate. Shot of a group of people on the footplate. Bahamas standing outside the shed in light steam. A woman entering a carriage at Towyn Warf Station on the Talyllyn Railway, Towyn Warf Station sign. Engine running around the train. Talyllyn Railway number 6 Douglas passing with a passenger train. Vale of Rheidol Railway number 7 Owain Glyndwr reversing onto a passenger train at Aberystwyth. Same locomotive taking on water at Devil's Bridge. Devil's Bridge station sign, number 7 running around its train. Shots from the footplate, train departing and travelling down the valley. Shots of the scenery, welsh landscape.

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.