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Arnott-Brown Collection

Collection of 150 8mm films, mostly footage of railways in the United Kingdom filmed between 1960 and 1982. The Arnott-Brown Collection also includes 5 boxes of colour transparencies and a number of black and white prints.

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Original 8mm colour footage, edited on large 400 feet reel. Silent, filmed between 1960-1982. Duration: 33 minutes. Content: Kirby Stephen East Station, Ivatt 2-6-0 locomotive, Standard 3 77002 with passenger train; Brittania at speed, Settle to Carlisle line; Black 5s with passenger train, Princess Royal class with express, , Kirby Stephen East station, fireman at work on footplate, journey to Stainmore Summit; J27 65811 with good strain, marshalling yard, A4 with express passenger service; J27 with Esso tankers, J72 reversing; A3 with passenger train, V3, Newcastle Station, V3 67588; A1 60137 Redgauntlet; A4 60003 Andrew K McCosh with express, A3 60084 Trigo; A4 60034 Lord Faringdon; J72, class 40, K1; 9F 92030 reversing, large yard; Midland Railway 4P Compound 1000 and 9F 92220 Evening Star, stationary; [00:04:15] Perth Station, A4 60034 Lord Faringdon with express; Black 5 45195, Perth station notice prohibiting cycling on the platform; Standard class 5 73153 with passenger train; [00:04:54] Callander Station, Fairburn 2-6-4T 42273 with passenger train; Kings Cross Station, A4 60009 Union of South Africa surrounded by large crowds, travel on East Coast Mainline (ECML), crossing the High Level Bridge, to Newcastle Station, 60009 at Gateshead Shed, class 55 Deltic, train 'Jubilee Requiem 1964' at Newcastle station; Gateshead Shed, V2 60884 under the coaling stage; A1 60124 Kenliworth, class 25; Newcastle, J27 on King Edward VII Bridge with coal train; A3; V2; family in a garden; interior of a shop; [00:08:20] Durham Station, V3 67636, viaduct, travel to Bishop Auckland and West Auckland, B16 61418 with 'SLS Durham Rail Tour' headboard, Port Clarance signal box, train and 61418 at Stockton Station, train to Hartlepool and Newcastle; [00:11:56] sidings, National Coal Board 0-6-0T with steel bodied coal wagons, Q7 63468 with brake van, J94 68054; Q7 63467 with coal train; B1 61216, B1 61199, J27 65805 with Esso tankers; Q6 63352 with brake van at high speed, B1 with passenger train; J94 68011 at engine shed; K1 62048; A3 and driver, viaduct; Durham Station, A3 60040 Cameronian, viaduct; Manors Station, A1 60129 Guy Mannering; footplate of an A4, mainline; [00:15:01] 4F 43960 shunting, station yard; Black 5 45399; Brittania 70012 John of Gaunt at speed, mainline; 4F with goods train; footplate of B16/2 61435 travel on mainline, Northallerton, uncoupling; train towards Hawes, Hawes station, 61435 taking water; women talking, people boarding plane, plane taxiing and taking off; [00:20:12] Newcastle Station, A4 60015 Quicksilver, A3 60076 Galopin; parade with musicians and traction engine in Newcastle; V2 60802; miniature 0-4-0 tank engine, cab and controls; Carlisle Station, Brittania class with passenger train, Princess Coronation class; Royal Scot class with passenger train; two black dogs playing in snow, frozen milk bottles; Newcastle Station, A1 with passenger train; A4 60030 Golden Fleece, class 40, A2/3 60513 Dante; train approaching Berwick, Royal Border Bridge, single track branch line to Eyemouth; people standing by J39/2 64917 at Eyemouth station; [00:26:42] South Shields, car ferry Northumbrian crossing Tyne and return to dock, large vessels, dark interior shots, car ferry Tynemouth on river; V3, suburban train, Newcastle; Standard Class 3 77011 with goods train, rural branch line; interior of house, garden; Drem station, Standard Class 4 tank engine 80007 with passenger train, A2 60538 Velocity, footplate of tank engine; driver closing regulator and braking to stop train; footplate shot, train on branch line to North Berwick; (dark footage); miniature railway; [00:30:42] suburbia, garden; shed, B1 61121, shunting, A4; K1 62035; J50 No 12, sidings; B1 with brake van; A4 60015 Quicksilver; O2/3, mainline; Newcastle Station, A2 60525 A.H. Peppercorn with passenger train, B1 with passenger train [end of reel]

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

1960-1982
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in August 1975 in Shildon, County Durham, England. 25 feet reel. Shildon Calvalcade for 150th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington railway. Footage content: shots of the locomotives prior to their entry into the public display section. Each locomotive stopped by a man with a flag before being allowed to proceed. The locomotives filmed are Midland Railway (MR) Spinner 673, L&YR 752 0-6-0T including a close up of the builders plate, LNWR 790 Hardwicke and carriage, LNWR 0-6-2T 1054, NBR 673 and carriage, MR 1000 and carriage, LMS 13509.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 10, Rail 150 Cavalcade at Shildon

1975-08
Original 8mm colour and black and white footage, edited on large 400 feet reel. Silent, filmed between 1960-1982. Duration: 33 minutes. Content: A4 locomotives, junction signal box; BR class 2MT, viaduct; Glen Lyon shunting; BR 2MT, A3, rural Scotland; BR 2MT; BR 3MT, rural branch line, locomotive, brake van, shunting; [00:02:44] Newcastle station (NCL), pilot 68723; LNER V3; Midland Railway No. 1000, Eaglescliffe Station, LNER A1 60121 Silurian; road repairs, road rollers, lorries, period cars; suburbia; Morpeth; Bellingham timetable 23/09/1961; LNER V2; DMU; NCL, LNER A3; LNER V3 67691; LNER A4 60033 Seagull; Darlington, WD 2-8-0 90348, RCTS The East Midlander 13/05/1962; Darlington Shed, SR Schools class 30925 Cheltenham, coaling; LMS 2P 40646, shed; 40646, driver in shed; [00:06:20] Darlington Station, 30925 Cheltenham; railtour 30925 and 40646; NCL, LNER A4 Quicksilver; LNER A3 60080 Dick Turpin; pilot 68736; A1 60119 Patrick Sterling; 60139 Alcazar, class 25 diesel; A4 60017 Silver Fox; East Coast Main Line (ECML); Darlington Station, A4 Silver Fox, DMU; 2MT, goods shed; Newcastle area, LNER J72 69008, A3, A2 60516 Hycilla, Class 03 diesel shunter, Q5 0-8-0 goods train, J27 65858 coal wagons, wooden and steel bodied, V3 2-6-2T passenger train, A1 with tankers, LNER Tyneside Electric Unit, V2 2-6-2 with wagons, A4 60027 Merlin; [00:10:23] NCL, A3 60081; multiple unit in train wash; West Jesmond, Q6 63434 with steel coal wagons; A3 60052 Prince Palatine, J27 and class 03; 60052; J39 64855 passenger train; J39 64938, breakdown train, steam powered crane, support coach; V2; A3 passenger on King Edward VII bridge; B1 goods at King Edward South Junction; 0-6-0; A4 express train; Tyneside Electrics Network (TEN), V1/V3 2-6-2T under bridge; NCL, A3 60071 Tranquil, class 37; V1 67675; Newcastle area, V1/V3 2-6-2T on TEN; [00:12:20] A4 60002 Sir Murrough Wilson uncoupling; A1 60154 Bon Accord express train; V2 60974; A1 60156 Great Central, V3 67690; York, Layerthorpe; platform Derwent Valley Light Railway; lorries, trolley buses, cars; West Jesmond, V1/V3; NCL, J72 68680, single van; V3 67687; V2 60831, A1 60138 Boswell, V2 60896 ; A4 60031 Golden Plover; class 40, A4 60028 Walter K. Whigham; [00:16:13] single track line, child climbing signal post; Dock side station, V3 67683, large cranes; woman at dockside, ships and cranes; A3; Darlington Station, A4 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley; NCL, J21 0-6-0 65033, snow and ice; class 08 diesel shunter, 0-6-0 locomotives, break van, Darlington power station; [00:18:29] NCL, A1 60129 Guy Mannering; V2 60919, vans; King Edward VII Bridge, A3, ECML; NCL, A B1 4-6-0; A4 60005 Sir Charles Newton; A4 at high speed; A4, motor rail; A4 60025 Falcon; 60895, coal wagons, A4 Silver Fox; J72 0-6-0T 68723 and 69023; A3 60108 Gay Crusader; B1 61338; 60061 Pretty Polly, class 25, J72 goods train; V2 60885; [00:23:09] Tebay Station, Black 5 45070 at high speed, Britannia 70018 Flying Dutchman; Black 5 44874, class 40 D321 double head passenger train; Gateshead Shed; A3 60043 Brown Jack; V3 67651; J26 65769 goods train; A3 60106 Flying Fox; A1 60121 Silurian; Q6 63363 on mainline, break van; [00:25:38] Newcastle, A3 High Level bridge, Swing Bridge; Manors Station, B1; A3, V3 67642, engineers trolley; York Station, K1 62049; Leeds City Station, Jubilee 45697 Achilles parcels train, DMU, Jubilee 45643 Rodney; Keighley Station, 4F 43960; Britannia 70003 John Bungan express; NCL, V2 60916, V3 67691; A1 60142 Edward Fletcher, parcels train; [00:28:17] V3 67651, B1 61307, V2 60922; Q6 63411; Newcastle Corporation buses, trolley buses; NCL; A3 60054 Manna; [00:30:18] York Station, A4 Sir Murrough Wilson; O4 63877; Jubilee, gasometer; Steel Works, WD 2-8-0; Doncaster Station, A1, Pullman coaches, A3; class 08 shunter; York Station, B1 with tankers; A1; [00:31:02] NCL, A4 parcels train; A2 60526 Sugar Palm; A4 60023 Golden Eagle, A4. V2 60887; A3 60053 Sansovino; B1 61219 [end of reel]

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 1, railway footage, North of England and Scotland (reel 1 of 3)

1960-1982
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 circa 1964. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 40, railway footage, filmed on footplate

1964
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1964 in England. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features the following steam locomotives, 34066 Spitfire, 35003 Royal Mail up A.L.E, 34060 25 Squadron Plymouth-Waterloo; 35019 down ALE; 34090 Waterloo-Padstoe; 34107 Blandford F?; 4250-6-0T type 25p built 1922 by Haar Jemstit.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 62, railway footage

1960-1964
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features Flying Scotsman locomotive No. 4472, Dunfermline, and between Alnwick and Morpeth.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 145, railway footage, Flying Scotsman locomotive

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed likely in 1981 on Mossel Bay Branch railway, South Africa. 25 feet reel. Footage content: SAR class 24 passing along a branch line next to the coast with passenger train. Another class 24 passing with passenger train before returning in the opposite direction. Mossel Bay Station sign. Class 24 3668 shunting in the station. Panoramic shot of the station, 3668 taking on water. Close-up shot of 3668's number plate. Class 24 with passenger train passing over a viaduct on the coast and another stationary at a station.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 21, railway footage, South African Railways on Mossel Bay Branch

1981
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed circa 1964, in Wales. 25 feet reel. Footage content: railway journey filmed through window from on board moving train, passing along side river, continuing through countryside, arriving at a station passing a standard class 75026. Train continuing joruney along river. Ivatt 2-6-0 arriving at station with a passenger train. Train passing through countryside, journey filmed from a carriage window, arrival at Llangollen Station. Shots from the footplate of standard class 4, departing Llangollen and continuing towards Acrefair and Ruabon. Black 5 45305 passing through Ruabon followed by Jubilee 45577. Further shots filmed from carriage window of a passenger train.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 12, railway footage, Llangollen to Ruabon on Train

1964
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Shot from front carriage of DMU, passing along single track branch line past disused stations. DMU arriving at a rural station. Group of people filmed outside a house. Dog playing in garden. V3 67651 departing Newcastle Station. B1 passing King Edward Bridge South Junction followed by a V2. Q6 passing in the other direction with a goods train. WD 2-8-0 passing with a goods train. Shots filmed in the grounds of a large country house.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 6, family and railway footage, Newcastle area

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: A1 60154 Bon Accord locomotive departing Newcastle station southbound. A1 60155 departing northbound with another passenger train. V3 67678 arriving light engine. Whitley Bay station sign, shots from locomotive footplate, travelling down part of the Tyneside Electric System, then on single track branch line. Shots of footplate crew at work. B1 locomotive passing along a stretch of mainline, A4 60001 Sir Ronald Mathews. A4 returning with a passenger train. V2 60962 passing light engine, A1 60127 with passenger train. A3 hauling passenger train down a stretch of the East Coast Main Line (ECML), followed by 60106. A1 60155 at Newcastle and V3 with passenger train. Black 5 backing on to a passenger train, departing towards Carlisle. V3 67678 arriving from the north with passenger train and V2 departing in the opposite direction.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 14, railway footage, Tyne and Wear on East Coast Main Line (ECML)

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968 in Wales. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Talyllyn Railway 6 Douglas arriving at Tywyn Wharf Station with passenger train, close-up shot of nameplate. Locomotive No.1 Talyllyn taking water, close-up shot of nameplate. Shots from the footplate, locomotive running around at Tywyn Wharf. Shot from window of moving train, locomotive No. 4 Edward Thomas passing with another passenger train. Talyllyn locomotive taking water, running back down the line, shot from the footplate. Shot from footplate of Welshpool and Llanfair Railway's The Earl, running passenger train, standing at a station. Close-up shot of nameplate, train departing Castle Caereinion, shot from the footplate. Train passing along the route with occasional shots of the engine crew at work, stopping to take on water.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 25, railway footage Talyllyn Railway and Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features railway in Oxenholme and Darlington.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 135, railway footage

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 39, railway footage

1960-1968
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, at Shap Summit on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 47, railway footage, Shap summit, West Coast Main Line and traction engine rally

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Portuguese Railway (CP) tank engine passing with passenger coaches and goods van. Shot of a station building. Mallet type 0-4-4-0 tank engine reversing into a station. Another tank engine reversing into the station with a passenger train. Shot filmed from the window of a passenger train as another passes. 4-6-0 arriving at a large station with another passenger train. CP 96 stands in a station. Close up of the number plate on the chimney and the Henschel & Sohn builders plate. Shots from the footplate of engine shed and station. Guard boarding and driver starting the train. Shots from the footplate, train passing industrial buildings, countryside. Shots of driver operating the controls to stop the train at a small station.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 24, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
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 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. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 88

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 89

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980, in Hamburg, West Germany. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Hamburg station, Hamburg Hbf sign. Deutsche Bahn (DB) locomotive 01-0506-6 approaching with passenger train. Train continuing along a section of electrified mainline, filmed from carriage window. The locomotive reversing light engine past the train. Shot of tram running through the streets. A man looking out over a large dock. Shots showing shops and cinemas in Hamburg red-light district. Unidentified 01 class arriving with a passenger train. Train continuing, filmed from carriage window, arriving at a station with a large overall roof. Train departing station. Shots showing a baby and a woman.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 30, railway footage, Hamburg, West Germany

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Shots from steam locomotive footplate, passing alongside a large lake. Two locomotives at a station, locomotive Portuguese Railways (CP) number 095, taking on water. Shots from the footplate, train continuing journey, passing freight train heading in opposite direction. Passing a diesel locomotive at a station stop. The engine crew cooking. Steam hauled passenger train hauled by CP number 094 passing. Train continuing alongside a lake before passing through a tunnel, arriving at a large station. CP number 294 at a large station. Close up shots of details on the locomotive. Mallet type tank engine passing with a goods train. Shots from the footplate of a locomotive passing alongside a hill, passing by a lake. The driver filmed stopping train at station.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 7, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1968, in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England. 25 feet reel. Footage content: traction engine on the road at Wide Open towing a portable steam engine, carrying a sign reading 'Robey the biggest and most powerful Steam Portable Engine in Europe in action at Birtley Traction Engine Rally 8-9 July'. Shots of those at various locations as they head into Newcastle. Shot of a news board with a headline 'Flying Scotsman in city pictures'. 4472 Flying Scotsman locomotive arriving at Newcastle with passenger train from the south. IFlying Scotsman at north end of Newcastle station with two tenders. Flying Scotsman departing the station and heading towards Gateshead. LNER Tyneside electric unit approaching. Shots from carriage window, train heading into Newcastle.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 28, railway footage, Flying Scotsman locomotive at Newcastle

1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed circa 1967. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Shot from the footplate, steam locomotive passing along a rural branch line, with crew filmed working. Train stopping at Slaggyford and Alston stations. Britannia class and V3 locomotives at a large junction in foggy weather. Train shunting on an embankment

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 5, railway footage, Britannia and V3 locomotives at Slaggyford and Alston

1967
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968, likely in Carnforth, Lancashire, England. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Stanier 2-6-4T passing along a railway embankment with passenger train followed by a Black 5 with goods train.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 11, railway footage, Stanier 2-6-4T and Black 5 locomotives

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1975. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 80

1975
Original 8mm colour footage, edited on large 400 feet reel. Silent, filmed between 1960-1982.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 110

1960-1982
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 106

1968-1980
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 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 1968-1980, possibly in Spain, Portugal or Italy. 25 feet reel. Shots of footplates and filmed from the footplate of a steam locomotive.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 46, railway footage, Southern Europe

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 91, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 87

1968-1980
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.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 134, railway footage

1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features the Isle of Wight railway.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 138, railway footage

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968 in England. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features class A4 steam locomotive Union of South Africa No. 60009, in Stafford and York

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 65, railway footage

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1981 on railways along Mossel Bay, South Africa. 25 feet reel. Footage content: Panoramic shot of Mossel Bay. South African Railways class 24 3668 locomotive passing with passenger train. Shot of woman and child playing in the sea at Mossel Bay. Another class 24 locomotive passing with goods train. Large boat out in the bay. Class 24 3684 reversing onto a train, departing, shot from the footplate. Train travelling on single track line, arriving at Hartenbos. Member of engine crew performing maintenance, shovelling coal, journey continuing past Voorbaal. Engine crew working, train arriving at another station.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 17, railway footage, South African Railways on Mossel Bay Branch

1981
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 52

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in October 1966. 25 feet reel. Footage likely featuring steam locomotives No. 43000 and 43063, and locomotive No. 60532 on a trip to Harwich filmed on 8 October 1966.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 75, railway footage, ‘Wansbeck Piper’ railtour on 2nd October 1966

1966-10
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 83

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 105

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely featuring an Open Day event on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 100, railway footage, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage likely featuring railways on the Douro Valley.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 128, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1970. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 146

1970
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely featuring Carlisle railway station, and possibly filmed at a wedding. The beginning of the reel shows railway tracks filmed from a platform or lineside.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 150

1962
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage content: A4 60007 at a siding. GWR small Prairie passing. 60007 moving off light engine past the engine shed. Standard class tank engine reversing light engine past several large blocks of flats on the Southern third rail system. Jinty tank engine pulling Black 5 44900 from engine shed. Black 5 44757 passing with goods train followed by Jubilee 45654 with passenger train. Black 5 passing with goods train. K1 62007 passing through a valley with passenger train. Shot filmed from a moving car, K1 passing along an embankment. 62007 departing a station. V2 passing with passenger train. Black 5 45134 departing a junction station with passenger train carrying a headboard, class 25 standing on an adjoining track. The Waverly headboard being attached to Black 5. Shots from Black 5 footplate passing along a mainline, including shots of the crew.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 8, railway footage, Black 5 and other locomotives

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1975-1982. 25 feet reel. Footage content: A4 60009 Union of South Africa locomotive backing onto a passenger train. Black 5 5305 in LMS livery passing with a passenger train at speed on a stretch of mainline. Princess Coronation 46229 Duchess of Hamilton arriving at a large station. Close-up shot of Duchess of Hamilton nameplate and front of locomotive fitted with 'The Limited Edition' headboard. Duchess of Hamilton uncoupled pulling away from railtour train. HST passing by railtour train. Train continuing, filmed from a carriage window, passing a line of class 37s at arrival in York from the north.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 18, railway footage, steam locomotives and HST

1975-1982
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