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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, 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 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, 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, 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 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
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
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
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
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features class A4 steam locomotive Kingfisher No. 60024.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 69, railway footage

1960-1968
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1964. 25 feet reel. Footage likely filmed on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway line and featuring Highbridge and Evercreech Junction.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 73, railway footage, Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

1960-1964
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1967. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 61, railway footage

1967
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1963. 25 feet reel. Footage likely filmed in Wales.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 71, railway footage

1963
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 May 1966. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features class A4 steam locomotives.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 66, railway footage

1966
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1968 in England. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features Flying Scotsman locomotive No. 4472, Edinburgh, Snowdon.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 64, railway footage

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

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 68, railway footage

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

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 79

1975
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 78

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1960-1964. 25 feet reel. Footage likely filmed on the Somerset and Dorset Joint railway line and featuring Templecombe, Evercreech Junction and Highbridge.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 72, railway footage, Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

1963
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 95

1968-1980
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. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 97

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features Vale of Rheidol Railway and Festiniog railway

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 81, railway footage

1968
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 between 3 and 6 August 1964. 25 feet reel. Footage of 1) 129 on 4:30 Berwick Aug 3rd, 2) 140 on 4:30 Berwick Aug 4th, 69028 at Dunston Aug 5th, 4) Carlisle Uppurby Aug 6th, Station Aug 6th, Kingmoor Aug 6th

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 86, railway footage

1964-08
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 107

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, edited on large 400 feet reel. Silent, filmed between 1960-1982.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 109

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

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 108

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed on 4 August 1968. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features 8F steam locomotive on last journey before the end of passenger steam trains in the United Kingdom, at Rose Grove, Plate Wigan and Rainhill.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 127, railway footage

1968-08-04
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed around 1968-1980 in Portugal. 25 feet reel. Footage of Viana Do Castelo, Viana station at the beginning of the reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 99, railway footage, Portugal

1968-1980
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1963. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features Taunton, Trelill, Bodmin North and Halwill.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 114, railway footage

1963
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1961. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features railways in Norway and Stainmore.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 121, railway footage

1961
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1962. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 118

1962
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1964. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features locomotive 60916 between York and Edinburgh, 67691, trollies,breakdown, 60054, trollies.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 119, railway footage

1964
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in 1964. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features railways in Bentham.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 124, railway footage

1964
Original 8mm colour footage, silent, filmed in December 1963. 25 feet reel. Footage likely features Black 5 locomotive, Durham, NC/LE, Darlington, Dartmouth

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 125, railway footage

1963-12