Original 8mm footage, silent, filmed between 1960 and 1980 in Tyne and Wear, England. 25 feet reel. Footage content: train leaving station, possibly Newcastle; shots of street, passenger's view, taken on board of moving car; Backworth, Eccles colliery, small coal shunters, Nos. 33 and 23, 0-6-0 and 0-4-0, National Coal Board, shots from footaplet and lineside, railway worker filmed shoveling track ballast, NCB No. 39, locomotive hauling passenger carriages passing, filmed from lineside; train approaching, filmed from platform end in unknown 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.