Original 8mm amateur film, reel 34, railway footage, South-West of England

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1963, in Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire, United Kingdom. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Westbury then Yetminster, view from a locomotive's window; locomotive 63808, hauling a special train fitted with headboard; locomotive 6930 filmed from lineside; Evercreech junction, filmed from outside at station; Westbury Halt, filmed through window on board of a moving train; 75023 passing; Bath Junction signal box, filmed through the window on board of a moving train; Deltic at unknown terminus 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.