Original 8mm amateur film, reel 31, steam engine rally, A4 Sir Nigel Gresley locomotive at Wylam Station and trip to Tunisia

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed circa 1980 in the United Kingdom and Tunisia. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Traction engine moving around a field, a woman and a baby seen in front of it as it passes. Another engine arriving towing trailers. Same woman and baby standing in front of engine. Another engine arriving towing a large trailer. Shot of Wylam Station sign. A4 4498 Sir Nigel Greasly passing with passenger train. Fammily footage. Filmed in Tunisia, Britannia Airways plane unloading on the tarmac at an airport. A woman carrying bags near to the aircraft. A pair of camel on the beach. One of the camels lies down, a man sits and ride on the camel, another man leads the camels.

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.