Original 8mm amateur film, reel 134, railway footage

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed on 24 May 1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features a non-stop run of Flying Scotsman locomotive No. 4472, filmed on or near Forth Bridge.

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.