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Original 8 mm amateur films of steam engines in the 1960s

1960-1970

Video recording of Institute of Railway Studies seminar, APT-E Past & Future

1996-09-28
Filmed in 1962, on PO-Correze, a former French narrow gauge (metre-gauge) railways in Central France. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. First broadcast date unknown (1962?) on BBC Television. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent.

16mm film, original master 'French Narrow Gauge (PO Correze)'

1962
Filmed in 1961 on the Chemin de fer du Vivarais, a heritage railway and tourist attraction in the South of France. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent.

16mm film, original master 'Reseau du Vivarais (France)'

1961
DVDs, video cassettes, TV news coverage of the East Coast main line and franchise holders, circa 1996 to 2014. The videos and discs were compiled mainly by TNS Media Intelligence for GNER and later National Express East Coast. The clips cover the reporting of the East Coast main line, inlcuding GNER's winning and loss of the franchise, National Express gaining the franchise, break-downs, disruption, accidents including Great Heck (Selby) and Hatfield, GNER's competition with Grand Central, and 'feel good' coverage such as train travel to the Bollywood Oscars, GNER's opera aboard a train, and GNER's appearance in 'Cheese and Tomato Toasties', an episode of the children's programme 'Me Too!'. There are also two GNER internal discs, one on the refurbishment of the HSTs and a powerpoint on the new wifi service. 41 DVDs and 14 VHS cassettes.

TV and news coverage of the East Coast main line and franchise holders

circa 1996-2014
Filmed in 1959 in Soviet Union, USSR. Footage taken at Moscow Riga railway station (Rizhsky), possibly a Soviet station staff in white jacket uniform and other passengers waiting on platform, steam passenger train arriving at station with steam locomotive class Su 2-6-2 No. 254-10, electric multiple unit (EMU) on opposite tracks, overhead electric lines, railway worker cleaning locomotive, steam locomotive Joseph Stalin class IS 2-8-4 No. 607 pulling Moscow-Odessa passenger train, likely at Moscow Kiev station (Kiyevsky), electric train VL-23 No. 103 (3000V DC) likely in one of Moscow terminus (possibly Leningradsky railway terminal or Yaroslavsky railway terminal), diesel twin class TE7 No. 007, pulling Moscow-Leningrad express, possibly arriving at Moskovsky railway station in then Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), in the same location, shunting of two large P36 4-8-4 steam locomotives coupled together. The end of the reel is made of footage taken at Malaya October railway (Malaya Oktyabrskaya or Malaia Oktiabr'skaia railway) a children’s railway, where children learn about the different railway jobs, shots showing children in railway uniform, observing locomotive, doing signalling operations from the tracks and on board, with steam locomotive class PT 0-8-0 departing station. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, black and white, silent. Duration: 5 minutes

16mm film, original master 'Russian Trains'

1960
Filmed in 1960 in Newcastle, England. Footage of diesel and steam locomotives, passenger and freight traffic at Newcastle station. Shots of steam locomotive No. 68723 pushing freight, shunting of diesel electric locomotive D264, D264 pulling passenger train departing from station, various steam locomotives shunting and pulling goods and passenger trains departing or arriving at station, including No. 60127, No. 65033, No. 60521, No. 68728, No. 68680 pushing Royal Mail carriage, No. 64923, No 60036 pulling 'The Queen of Scots' train, No. 65838, No. 68723. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, black and white, silent. Duration: 6 minutes

16mm film, original master 'Trains at Newcastle-Upon-Tyne'

1960
Filmed in 1959 on the French Railways (SNCF), in France and Switzerland. Footage of SNCF electric and steam trains at Lille Poste 1 station, parcels and mail loaded onto carriages, shunting electric power car, passenger boarding second class carriage, electric multiple unit (EMU), steam locomotive pulling train, departing station, electric locomotive BB-13034, shots from carriage’s window at tail of train, departing station, train at Strasbourg station, electric locomotive BB-16002 coupled to carriages, footage of journey taken from driver's cab, shots of driver inside driver's cab, stops at different stations, freight, goods trains passing on parallel tracks, shots of electric overhead lines and tracks filmed from driver's cab, shots of electrical signalling equipment, arrival at Basel station. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, black and white, silent. Duration: 10 minutes

16mm film, original master 'Lille to Basle'

1959
Three 8mm 50 feet film reel, titled ' Ffestiniog and Rainhill'. Footage made by amateur filmmaker, David Hodge, filmed when he worked for Ffestiniog Railway as part of the permanent way gang from 1967, and includes footage of the Rainhill celebrations, Rocket 150 event on 24 May 1980. According to the filmmaker's notes on Kodak envelope containing the reel, footage includes ship RMS Queen Mary (QM), United States, Journey on locomotive Mary Ann (Ffestiniog Railway). Colour and silent footage.

8mm amateur footage 'Ffestiniog and Rainhill' by David Hodge

Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1968 on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR), West Yorkshire. 25 feet reel. Footage content: KWVR opening day as aheritage railway. Ivatt 2-6-4T 41241 in Worth Valley Railway livery with headboard reading 'Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening Special'. US tank engine 72 in Worth Valley livery is part of the train. Shot from locomotive footplate prior to departure, large crowd around the train. Shot showing large board which reads 'Stop. Locomotives and Rolling Stock must not pass this board', two policemen present. 41241 and 72 pulling train out of the station, filmed from carriage window. Train continuing up the valley, running through Haworth, arriving at Oxenhope. Shot of a brass band playing and a civic official. 41241 at Oxenhope at the head of the train. Oxenhope (Midland) station sign, driver drinking champagne. 41241 and 72 running around the train. Footplate shot of US tank engine 72 running around the train at Keighley. 41241 and 72 departing with the train heading up the valley.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 15, re-opening of Worth Valley Branch

1968-06
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1975-1982. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Black 5 4767 in LMS livery hauling excursion train along a railway embankment, over a motorway, emerging from under a bridge. A3 4472 Flying Scotsman reversing off a turntable past a line of industrial tank engines. A woman and a child waving from Flying Scotsman footplate, close-up shot of the nameplate. A4 4498 Sir Nigel Greasly moving onto turntable, 'The A4 Locomotive Society' headboard. GWR 6960 Raveningham Hall passing. 4472 Flying Scotsman surrounded by a large crowd around it. Different lcomotives passing, SNCF locomotive, 4498, 6960, small industrial tank engine, 4472 and an unidentified GWT locomotive.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 13, railway footage, Flying Scotsman and other steam locomotives

1975-1982
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: B1 locomotive reversing from a shed. 9F 92099 passing with a passenger train. 9F 92099 station carrying a headboard. Alnmouth Station sign. Shot from the footplate, 9F travelling down a single track branch line. A4 60019 passing on a stretch of mainline. A2 60532 Blue Peter moving around a shed. Reel has likely been exposed twice, a second faint film appears superimposed on a more visible film.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 19, railway footage, 9F, B1, A4 and A2 steam locomotives

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in August 1975 in Shildon. 25 feet reel. Footage content: shots of locomotives prior to their entry into the public display section. Each locomotive is stopped by a man with a flag before being allowed to proceed. The locomotives featured are: 4F 4027, Black 5 5000, 5051 Drysllwyn Castle, 925 Cheltenham, LMS 0-6-0 tank engine 7298, National Coal Board Robert, BR 2-6-0 43106 and GWR 0-6-0T 3205

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 26, railway footage, Rail 150 Cavalcade in Shildon

1975
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Panoramic shot of traction engine rally taking place in a field. Line-up of several traction engines and steam rollers. Several engines and a steam lorry entering the field and lining up in the centre. Crowd, large group of people gathering around vehicles. Another traction engine powering an organ. Another engine, The Dalesman, on the road. Shit of a large ship passing the coast line with crowd watching.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 23, traction engine rally

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1982, possibly in the Port of Tyne, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. 25 feet reel. Footage content: woman walking on dock side in port, talking to the filmaker holding the camera. Shot of a ship or vessel departing the port.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 27, ship in port

1960-1982
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980, in Carlisle and Chocklakes, Cumbria, England. 25 feet reel. Footage content: A4 locomotive No. 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley standing at Carlisle Station. Shots of engine and footplate. Exterior shot of Carlisle station building. Small steam industrial shunter at the British Gypsum Limited Cocklake Works, steam engine moving around the sidings. Shot of the work's board by the entrance to the site. Engine moving around a short stretch of track before standing in a siding. Close-up shot of the builders plate, one of the crew members loading coal onto the engine. Engine moved away, diesel shunter moving some wagons.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 29, railway footage, A4 Sir Nigel Gresley locomotive at Carlisle station and industrial railway operations at British Gypsum Limited Cocklake

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, edited on large 400 feet reel. Silent, filmed between 1960-1982. Duration: 37 minutes. Content: Newcastle Station, V2 60831, parcels train; V2, Gateshead shed; class 44, 60831, Newcastle King Edward VII Bridge; Black 5, moorland station; Bradley Parish Church sign; West Coast Main Line (WCML), Britannia 70042 Lord Roberts, a station; Royal Scot 46115 Scots Guardsman with mixed goods train, 8F 48470; Black 5 45137; diesel locomotive cab, Black 5 with goods train; Dent Head, 9F with mineral train; Ais Gil, 9F 92130 with mineral wagons, Britannia 70035 Rudyard Kipling; 0-6-0T locomotive Mersey Docks & Harbour Board shunting in sidings; passenger trains at rural station, Standard 4 75048, 4P 2-6-4T 42296; Stanier 2-6-4T with passenger train; [00:05:00] Black 5 44911, Kirby Stephen West signal box; Kirby Stephen, locomotive in heavy snow; J27 65842, large industrial site; J27 65790, empty coal wagons; 3 J27s in shed; Q6 63419 with coal wagons; sidings, B1 with goods train, WD 2-8-0; Black 5 45056 with vans, Black 5 44695; class 44, passenger train, K1 62010 with brake van; B1, goods train, siding; railtour K4 3442 The Great Marquess and K1 pass, rural locations; Filey Holiday Camp Station, K1; [00:10:22] Newcastle Station, A1 60145 Saint Mungo, parcels train; A1 at speed with parcels train; Q6 63453 coal train; 0-4-0T National Coal Board shunter, industrial branch line; Newcastle Station, J27 65814 coal train; A1 60145 with parcels train, class 47 with goods train, King Edward VII Bridge; K1 62017 with coal; A4 60024 Kingfisher, engine shed; Q1 33006; rebuilt Bullied Pacific with parcels train; [00:14:39] Alnwick Station, 9F 92099, shunting at station; Barnard Castle Station, Middleton in Teesdale Station, B1 reversing, single track branch line; Stanier 2-6-4T 42639, V3 67646, Barnard Castle Station; 67646 cab, Tees Valley branch, railtour with 42639, Middleton in Teesdale; Newcastle Station, A3 60051 Blink Bonny, shed, diesel shunter; High Level Bridge, Gateshead Shed with A3s, WD 2-8-0s, V2s, B1s and other locomotives; Q6; over viaduct; [00:19:29] Isle of Wight, Ryde St Johns Road, Small Brook Junction, 0-4-4T; Ryde St Johns Road to Shanklin; buttercups at Shanklin Station, O2 W35; W35 Freshwater,O2 W20, train from Ryde; Ryde, O2; W27 Merstone; 2 O2s at Ryde Engine Shed; W31 Chale, Ryde St Johns Road; Merstone at Ryde Esplanade, Ryde Tunnel; [00:23:45] Machynlleth, Aberystwyth, Dovey Junction, passenger train, Standard 4 75012, Standard 4 75020; running gear of a Standard 475020; mainline, Ivatt 2-6-0 43120, Black 5 45155 with passenger train; journey between Appleby, Garsdale, Hellifield on board train with Britannia 70006 Robert Burns, water tower at Appleby, train at Garsdale station in fog and snow; 70006 on Hellifield turntable; [00:26:51] 4472 Flying Scotsman; moorland, A2 60528 Tudor Minstrel; A1 60126 Sir Vincent Raven; A4 60022 Mallard at Newcastle Station, GMRS Forth Bridge Special, over Royal Boarder Bridge at Berwick; Mallard at Edinburgh Waverly, A4 60004 William Whitelaw; [00:29:08] East Coast Mainline (ECML), Newcastle, A1, A4 60025 Falcon, B1 with goods train; Mallard with passenger train, Falcon with passenger train; A1 with goods train; West Jesmond Station, J27 65875 with goods train; V3 passenger train at speed; King Edward Bridge South Junction, Newcastle, V2 60884; A4 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley with passenger train; A1 60154 Bon Accord with parcels train; J25, Gateshead shed; mainline, V2, A4 60001 Sir Ronald Mathews with passenger train; Balmbra’s Music Hall in Newcastle, soldiers, sailors and vintage vehicles parade in Cloth Market, Newcastle; [00:32:29] A2 60532 Blue Peter at Aberdeen Station and Stonehaven, Blue Peter taking water at Stonehaven; Black 5 44720 with passenger train; A4 60019 Bittern at Arbroath Station, DMU; [00:35:18] Tay Bridge, V2 60915, Dundee station, shot of driver; 60915 at Kirkcaldy; train passing over the Forth Bridge [end of reel]

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 2, railway footage, North of England and Scotland (reel 2 of 3)

1960-1982
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980, in the United Kingdom. 25 feet reel. Footage content: black locomotive; shot taken from cab window, remote location, next to a river; passing by a locomotive in some sidings; shot showing a viduct across a river; shunting yard

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 33, railway footage

1968-1980
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

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

1960-1963
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

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 35, railway footage, Tyne and Wear, colliery

1960-1980
Original 8mm black and white footage, silent, filmed circa 1962 in Stainmore, England. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 36, railway footage, Stainmore

1962
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1971. 25 feet reel. Launching ceremony of fishing vessel trawler 'Ranger Callisto' owned by Ranger Fishing Co. Ltd., launched on 24/06/1971 at North Shields port. Footage includes preparations and close-up shots of the ship.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 9, footage of launching ceremony of Ranger Callisto vessel

1971-06
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed on 26 September 1964. 25 feet reel. Possibly includes footage of Flying Scotsman locomotive 4472, Darlington station

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 43, railway footage

1964-09-26
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1964, in Pantydwr, Wales. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 41, railway footage, Pantydwr, Wales

1960-1964
Unexposed Negative; Colour negative unexposed, tape around metal box, in yellow kodak cardboard, 100 feet reel; 100 feet Eastman Kodak yellow case

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Unexposed negative'

Print; U111 / 06/04/1979 / B&W, Silent / Can 2 of 2;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Testing of Bcf Fire Extinguisher'

1979
Offcuts; U113 / 26/04/1979 / Colour, Silent / Can 4 of 5;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Detonator Tests Mickleover reel 4'

1979
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features J24 steam locomotives and pug locomotives (shunting locomotives) at Heaton.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 50, railway footage

1968
Negative Master; U113 / 06/04/1979 / BR Research roll No.336 / Colour, Silent / Can 1 of 2;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Detonator Tests Mickleover reel 1'

1979
Print; 05/07/1970 / Title on first frames, nothing written on can / B&W; 100 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Failure of Shielded Potential Transformer, Colchester'

1970
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed on 6 April 1972. 25 feet reel. Footage of harbour, ferry.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 48, railway footage

1972-04-06
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed on 26 August 1964 in Wales. 25 feet reel. Content: locomotive 42282, railway journey between Caernarfon and Afor Wen, including Portmadoc, Barnmouth and Barnmouth Bridge

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 49, railway footage, Wales

1964-08-26
Negative Master; U115 / 08/1979 / Colour, Silent / Can 1 of 2;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Wheelset Derailing Tests Etwall reel 1'

1979
Print; U113 / 06/04/1979 / Colour, Silent / Edited print / Can 5 of 5;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Detonator Tests Mickleover reel 5 '

1979
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968 in Scotland. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features locomotive No. 103 filmed on Highland Railway mainline, between Pitlochry and Inverness.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 54, railway footage, Highland railway

1960-1968
Copy; Thames television label / BR Research roll No.292 according leader / 14/12/1976 / Colour, Magnetic sound / Title on first frames: "5% Phosphorus EMU Simulation Initial Speed 30 m/s (67mph); 800 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'The Sweeny 'Jackpot''

1976
Original camera; Cardboard case and metal canister / U9 / "Radcliffe on Trent" on box, / "Completed" / Colour, Silent / Magenta / Edited original reversal / Radcliffe-on-Trent, laying concrete ? / Approx. 580 feet; Carboard case

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Radcliffe Test Site'

Copy; U97 / 1971 after title / 27/07/1977 / Can 1 of 1 / Colour, Optical sound / Magenta;800 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'The Faraday Lecture'

1977
Print; U110, not written on can / 06/04/1978 / Three films linked / BR RES J65502, RL322 / Silent / Can 1 of 3;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Hornsey coupling tests 1'

1978
Negative Master; U110, not written on can / 06/04/1978 / Three films linked / BR RES J65502, RL322 / Three films linked / Silent / Can 2 of 3;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Hornsey coupling tests 2'

1978
Print; U109 / "Titles for meetings in…" on label, title from first frames + "BR Safety Tests 1976" / 20/05/1978 / Colour, Silent / Magenta / Can 2 of 2;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Sodium Polysulphide Corrosion Tests'

1978
Print; I77/2 / Lane End Prods Ltd on Reeds label / Colour, Silent / Reversal print;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Computer Train Control'

One magnetic reel-to-reel 1/4" audio tape, sound recording for George Stephenson Lecture Set from British Rail Research. The lecture set comprised audio and film, however the film reel is missing.

1/4 inch magnetic audio tape of sound recording for George Stephenson Lecture Set

Print; I80 / BR Research / CM&EE / B&W, Silent;800 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Riding Tests Scotland'

Negative Master; U113 / 26/04/1979 / Colour, Silent / Can 2 of 5;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Detonator Tests Mickleover reel 2'

1979
Copy; Railway Industry Association on can / COI label / Reels 1 & 2 on one reel / Colour, Optical sound / Magenta; 800 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'British Locomotives'

Negative Master; U83 / 10/02/1977 / On leader: British Rail R2C/D 01/11/1974 / Silent / Can 1 of 2;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Consolidator'

1977
Copy; BTF label / Extract from #3 "Having a Fresh Look" / 200 feet / Colour, Optical sound / Magenta;400 feet cardboard case

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'SR AWS at Bournemouth and continuous train control at Friargate'

Copy; I73/2 / Title on BTF label and first frames along with BR double arrow logo / Colour, Optical sound / Magenta;400 feet plastic canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Automatic Warning System with Cab Signalling Display'

Print; Not the original can / I88 / Film laboratories doc: 11/07/1972, print for best projection / Colour, Silent / Magenta;400 feet metal canister

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Skate Freight'

1972