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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

This may be offcuts, footage made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV but not used in final edit for broadcast, filmed by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. Filmed on the Chemin de fer du Vivarais, a heritage railway and tourist attraction in the South of France. Footage of French railways CFD Reseau du Vivarais, steam locomotives pulling goods wagon, goods train passing over viaduct, trains journey filmed from lineside, goods train passing through French country landscape, railwaymen coupling wagon and locomotive, locomotive at water plant for water tank refill, railcar, locomotive No. 406, transporting wood in open wagons, steam locomotive in railway yard, freight, wood transport, steam engine shunting, shots taken from locomotive in motion, shots of steam passenger train filmed from line side, driver oiling wheels of locomotive No. 103, driver washing his hands with water running out of locomotive, CFD railcar, shots of journey filmed from locomotive front, CDF railcar, steam locomotive shunting, coupling steam locomotive to passenger carriages. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent.

16mm film, original master 'Vivarais II'

1961
Filmed in 1962, on Zillertal railway (Zillertalbahn), a narrow-gauge railway in Austria, operating steam, diesel locomotives and railcars, between Jenbach to Mayrhofen. Footage of passengers on station platform and walking on path over tracks, group of railway staff talking together near tracks, departure sign for the destination of Mayrhofen, locomotive coal tank refill, railway crossing gate closing, steam train departing, children boarding in countryside location, footage of journey filmed from carriage, children and adults waiting at countryside station, shots of children on board, children getting off the train, children boarding train, train departing, lineside shots of train journey, Austrian mountain landscape, Austrian houses, shunting steam locomotive, water tank refill at water plant, shunting away, coupling locomotive to carriages, adults boarding train, locomotive No. 4790, passengers waving as train departs, goods train passing with hay, movement of freight wagons and passenger trains, footage filmed from on board moving passenger train, pedestrians crossing tracks as railway gate is closing down, electric goods train passing through station, likely Jenbach station. A film produced by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

16mm film, original master 'The School Train (Zillertal Bahn)'

1962
Film made of footage filmed in 1930s and edited with title cards in 1950s. Footage of the Colorado and Southern railroad, oil fired 3 feet engine, shunting, coupling to wagons, oiling wheels, goods train departing, journey of train through Colorado landscape, snow, 2 feet gauge Bridgton and Harrison railroad, freight, shunting locomotive, passenger train, passengers boarding, manual operation of turntable, 2 feet gauge Sandy River and Rangeley lakes railroad, freight and passenger train, ball signals, motorcar (railcar), locomotive with snow plough, turntable, snow clearing, Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad narrow gauge division, goods steam train on mountain railway, locomotive No. 479, passenger carriages, passenger train, Silverton Branch Los Anima River Canyon, footage of journey filmed from top of carriages, shots of canyon, mail transport by railcar 'galloping goose' Rio Grande Southern railroad, railcar passing over viaduct, freight pulled by steamn locomotive, end shot of a street in Chicago. This is a print (copy), black and white, silent. Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

16mm film, print (master) 'American Narrow Gauge'

1930-1960
Filmed in 1960 on Brienz Rothorn Railway, a heritage rack railway and tourist attraction in the Swiss Alps, Switzerland. Footage of Lake Brienz, passenger disembarking boat on lake, walking to Brienz railway station, passenger queuing besides of tracks, shots of red carriage pushed by rack steam locomotive, shots of the journey taken on board, views over tracks and Swiss Alps landscape, lineside shots of train passing, train climbing incline, several stops to refill locomotive water tank, passengers getting off, trains up and down the inclines, going through tunnel in the mountain, approaching summit, arrival at Kulm (Rothorn Kulm), close-up shots of steam locomotive, trains descending back to Brienz. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent. Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

16mm film, original master 'The Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn'

1960
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
Filmed in 1960 of the Semmering railway in Austria. Footage of freight, steam goods train passing over viaduct, filmed from the lineside, in Austrian landscape, electric passenger train, steam train on viaduct, workers on scaffolding on sides of viaduct, permanent way workers laying track manually, electrification construction work, electric train filmed from lineside, shots of journey from on board train, train passing through tunnel, driver in electric power car cab, Semmering sign, overhead electric lines, Murzzuschlag station, BB 1010.19 electric power car shunting at station, steam locomotive No. 78.612 coupled to passenger train replacing electric engine. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the master film reel, black and white, sound and silent. Film made of original footage shot by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse and footage reused from a pre-existing Austrian film. Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

16mm film, original master 'The Semmering Line'

1960
Film made in the early 1960s, in the Republic of Mauritius. Footage of Mauritius Government Railways, a railway on Mauritius, Africa, island in the Indian Ocean. Includes close up shots of steam locomotive No. 15 (built by Sharp Stewart and Co. Limited, Atlas Works, Manchester), shunting of locomotive, passengers boarding carriages, train departing, road crossing gate operated manually, people by lineside, children running on tracks, shots of journey taken from locomotive, steam locomotive No. 73, men refilling coal tank manually, goods train passing, locomotive No. 50, goods train departing headed by locomotive No. 40, signalman with flag near tracks, men filling locomotive No. 22 with wood, locomotives No. 61, No. 62, railcar in background, manual operation of road crossing gate, locomotive No.70 pulling freight train. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the original master film reel, colour, silent. Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

16mm film, original master 'Mauritius Government Railways'

1960-1965
Black and white, Silent, 16 fps, 405 feet, 17 minutes. Footage of the flying scotsman service, starting with scenes of Kings Cross station and loco sheds. No 2577 and 4475 being maintained at beforr service; the cocktail bar and buffet service on board; signals and signal boxes; the kitchen and dining carriages; the barber shop; scenes passing Durham and Newcastle; crossing the river Tweed into Scotland; scenes of Edinburgh;

16mm Film 'Great Britain’s Great Expresses No.1, The Flying Scotsman'

1933
Original camera + Print;400 feet plastic canister;BR TF8 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / First frames "For comparison, a film was made of the apparatus used on the Highland line", "A light engine demonstrates the apparatus" /tablet exchange on the Highland a light engine demonstrates apparatus. / B&W, Silent / Reversal

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Tablet Exchange'

Filmed in 1960 on French railways (SNCF) in Paris, France. Footage of various electric trains departing and arriving at station, close-up shots of pantographs, electric locomotive BB-9263, electric locomotive Le Mistral CC-7124 for Lyon, Marseille and Nice, Le Mistral train departing station, view from a bridge over the multiple tracks in and out the station with steam, diesel and electric locomotives, various shots of steam trains and electric trains departing station (various Parisian stations), filmed from platforms, electric locomotive moved on traverser, locomotive 232.S.004 on traverser and into shed, locomotive coming out of shed, 231E27 fitted with front train nameplate 'Fleche d'or', railwayman oiling and cleaning locomotive, shot of kitchen staff breaking ice on platform to load in dining car. 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 'Paris Termini'

1960
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
Video footage taken on 2nd March 1989 at Weaverthorpe on the Scarborough line, process of trimming oil lamp wick, lighting it, then installing lamp on semaphore signal gantry, with signalman Arthur Hall. Material edited into 'F.N.R.M. Archive Magazine'. Low band, unedited original camera tape. Colour, sound. Duration: 20 minutes maximum

U-matic S videotape ‘Semaphore Signal Lamp Trimming'

1989-03-02
Filmed in 1959 in France. Footage of the French Express train 'Le Mistral', showing steam locomotive led train and electric train. Steam locomotive with 'Mistral' nameplate on front, at Nice-Ville station, driver and fireman in cab, shots taken from the driver's cab window and inside the cab, train journey along the Mediterranean coast, views of the beach, passing over viaduct, Marseille Saint Charles station, Avignon station, Lyon Perrache station, shots of 'Mistral' electric train, railway level crossing, Macon station, interior shots of kitchen and dining car. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is the master film reel, colour (original footage shot by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse) and black and white (footage reused from pre-existing SNCF film), silent. Duration: 7 minutes

16mm film, original master 'Le Mistral: Nice to Paris'

1959
2 edited videos, broadcast extracts about 10 years since the privatisation of British Rail, 27-28/04/2006: BBC 1 North East, with transport correspondent Alan Whitehouse, footage on board of GNER service, interviews with David Holdgate (frequent traveller), Jonathan Metclafe (GNER), Chris Cheek (Editor Rail Industry Monitor), use of archive footage with A4 and inside kitchen carriage (comparing archive and GNER kitchen footage), questionning financial viability of GNER following bid for renewing 10 years license for East Coast Main Line ; BBC 1 East Midlands (East Midlands Today) with Alan Whitehouse BBC correspondant, using archive footage with A4, footage on board GNER service, interview with Jonathan Metcalfe (GNER) ; 5min total

TV news coverage of '10 years since the privatisation of British Rail'

2006
Digital film 'It’s Quicker by Hearse', made by Esther Johnson, 2013. This film is the tale of the petitioning housewife, the protesting schoolboy and the campaign trail student. It is a documentary about the campaign to save the Waverley Route Borders railway line in 1968, following the recommendations of Dr Richard Beeching’s report, the Reshaping of British Railways. Features interviews with Madge Elliot, Kim Elliot and Bruce McCartney. Master edit QuickTime digital file and Blu Ray High Definition disc. Colour, stereo sound, 16:9 aspect ratio. Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds

Digital film 'It’s Quicker by Hearse'

2013
Digital video, 'Being There', created by Andrew Cross is a film work that was commissioned by the NRM and explores the sense of anticipation when watching trains. Andrew filmed approximately 16 train watching scenarios in locations across the world. Locations include the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland. This work was supported with public funding by the Arts Council England. HD 16:9 (1990x1080), colour, sound. Total duration: 100 mins. Dimensions variable.

Film 'Being There'

2014
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.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 39, railway footage

1960-1968
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 circa 1980, in West Germany. 25 feet reel.

Original 8mm amateur film, reel 44, railway footage, West Germany

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
Amateur video ‘Norton Bridge and Kidsgrove, two signal boxes’ filmed on VHS videotape by Mark Watson in 1994 and 1995, on the West Coast Main Line. Total duration: 40 minutes. Filmed in 2 parts. Part 1, December 1994, traffic at Norton Bridge Railway station, filmed in station and from inside signal box. Part 2, April 1995, journey from Stoke to Kidsgrove-Etruria railway station, Kidsgrove, signal box, Peter Pan locomotive No.86259.

VHS videotape ‘Norton Bridge and Kidsgrove, two signal boxes’

1994-1995
Amateur video ‘Silverdale Branch’ filmed on VHS videotape by Mark Watson in November 1998. Total duration: 45 minutes. Filming of a Pathfinder rail tour 'Cheshire Mole’ (Magical Mystery tour) on the Silverdale Colliery Branch. Journey starts at Madeley, passing Madeley signal box, Madeley Chord Signal box, passing in Keele tunnels, journey to the colliery and route back. Steam locomotives leading the rail tour are EWS diesel locomotive 56114 and Co-Co diesel-electric locomotive 60038.

VHS videotape ‘Silverdale Branch’

1998-11
Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Manx Electric Railway (MER) and the Isle of Man Railway (IMR); tramcar No.1 with trailer 37, from the MER with “Douglas and Laxey Electric Tramway” written on the side of the tram; Bulgham Bay and Dhoon Queery; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Laxey wheel (Lady Isabella waterwheel). Tramcars No.1 and 4 at summit; No.6 and 3 are filmed from inside a tram passing by; Dhoon and Dreemskerry; the Isle of Man Railway; diesel railcar stopped at Douglas and the locomotive No.13, Kissack, leaving the station; red steam locomotive No.4, Loch; locomotive No.11, Maitland, and a Foxdale coach; Douglas horse drawn tramway features two horse trams, No.14 (double-decker) and No.12. The first one is baring a poster for the “Horse tram centenary”; tramcar No.5 passing, also the trailer No.72 being pulled out of a shed by a blue truck; poster for the ‘Cavalcade of electric cars’; IMR, in Douglas, locomotive No.12 Hutchinson, a diesel railcar, and locomotive No.13, Kissack.

8mm Footage 'Trams, Steam Locomotives and Diesel Railcars on the Isle of Man'

1979-1982
Copy; 800 feet blue plastic canister; 450 feet / 13 minutes / Kodachrome colour reversal / 1942 / Film with descriptive captions / No title or 'end' captions / Intervention of men from the breakdown train on an engine in a bomb crater, men are seen in the train getting prepared to go on the intervention (putting protective equipment on), first squad going to work, then relieved by another one for a break while GUS assist the first squad with anti-gas ointment and undressing; last footage shows when the job is completed, how the boots are removed / Film warped/crinkled, few or discreet scratches

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Air Raid Precaution Drumclog'

Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Manx Electric Railway, Laxey; Isle of Man Railway (IMR); Bellawoods crossing; locomotive No. 11 Maitland; trams No.20 and trailer 47 filmed in Ramsey; trams No.22 and trailer 44 around Glen Mona; tram No.23 and trailer 43 filmed near Fairy cottage, Laxey; stationary locomotives aligned on tracks in Douglas; locomotive No.12 Hutchinson; Locomotives No. 10 G. H.Wood; booking office in Laxey with publicity posters for the Snaefell Mountain Railway; footage taken on board the Snaefell Mountain Railway, which includes views of the well-known Laxey wheel (Lady Isabella waterwheel); one steam locomotive is seen hauling several others. This includes the locomotives No.6 Peveril, 8 Fenella, 13 Kissack and 16 Mannin; exterior shot of the diesel engine at Port Soderick station. A shot in Douglas station features the locomotive No.4 Loch; Douglas Horse Tramway, with carriage No.42 and 44.

8mm Footage 'Railways and Tramways on the Isle of Man'

1969-1971
Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Royal Albert Bridge in Saltash; Paignton and Kingswear train on coastal route; Copy Pit line (Todmorden to Burnley); Bournemouth central, locomotive 34004 Yeovil station; 73001 and 75073; Moorgate station and its widened lines; Leeds city station shows 42196 passing; Holyhead and Brymbo tour; 9630 is seen passing, also a signal box, then Blue Peter 60532 locomotive in a station with the train plate ‘A.R.E.S Holyhead Brymbo Special’; South Lancashire tour between Wigan and Liverpool Riverside; Lanarkshire Yeomanry 45154 leaving a station; Manchester Central station ; Great Northern goods warehouse; footage of last days of trolleybuses in Manchester and Rotherham; locomotive 68006; Crich Tramway village; tramway cars seen from outside, inside carriage, inside driver’s cabin and close-ups of pieces of mechanism (overhead electric cable); Amsterdam Tramway; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Manx Electric Railway (Derby Castle terminus) and Ramsey Pier tram; Southend Pier tramway; 70013 Oliver Cromwell locomotive; 2226, and 41241 & 72 (30072) at Haworth, apparently shortly after the re-opening of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; locomotive No. 10 G. H.Wood; Tal-y-Llyn (Talyllyn) railway; locomotive named Sir Haydn; Garsdale station and signal box.

8mm Footage ' Steam, Diesel and Electric Trains in UK and Amsterdam's Tramway'

1964-1969
Print; 400 feet cardboard case; Metal canister inside cardboard case / I16 / Title on first frames / on Can: "The Jackson Tamper in Switch & crossing layouts" / 250 feet / Edited print or reversal original / B&W, Silent / Correspond to BRTF16

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'The Jackson Tamper'

Print;400 feet plastic canister;BR TF13 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / B&W, Silent

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Wheel Slipping'

Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF17 / B&W, Silent

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Experimental Carriage Axle Box'

Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF24 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / B&W, Silent / Edited original reversal / Approx. 400 feet / Various experiences, men on railway lines installing cables and apparatus, gathering data when train passing, footage taken inside workshop, test on tracks, underframes?

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Lab tests Southern Region 1940's-1950's'

Copy; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF20 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / Class A4 locomotive on rail filmed on first frames / B&W, Optical sound

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Rail Stress'

Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF32 reference to old railway technical films catalogue; visit of Beeching to Derby Techical Centre, May 1964, model railway marshalling yard, axle test, bogie framework investigations, testing of springs. / B&W, Silent / Edited original reversal

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Derby Technical Centre 1964'

Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF33 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / Colour, Silent / Edited original reversal

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Opening Technical Centre Derby May 1964'

Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF31 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / B&W, Silent / Edited original reversal

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Weighing Locomotive fires L.Y 2-4-2T'

Filmed in 1959 in Glasgow, during the Scottish Industries Exhibition at Kelvin Hall. The exhibition ran between 3 and 19 September 1959. Footage shows steam locomotives running on tracks, including double headed passenger train led by Caledonian Railway locomotive No. 123 and Great North of Scotland Railway locomotive, North British Railway locomotive No. 256 'Glen Douglas', No. 3440 'City of Truro' in engine yard, locomotive on turntable, Great North British Railway No. 49 Gordon Highlander, Caledonian Railway locomotive No. 123 at water plant, Highland Railway locomotive No. 103 backed to water plant. A film made for Railway Roundabout BBC TV, by John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse. This is an 8mm print (show copy), black and white, silent. Duration: 5 minutes

8mm film, print, Railway Roundabout film 'Scottish Historical Locomotives'

1959
Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF12 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / B&W, Silent / Edited original reversal

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Wheel Slipping Black Five'

Original camera; 400 feet plastic canister; BR TF10 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / B&W, Silent / Vinegar smell / Either an edited print or an original reversal master

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Periodic Side Cutting of Rails'

Print;400 feet plastic canister;BR TF4 Part 2 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / B&W, Silent / Including footage of model of locomotives in wind tunnel; lamp testing, track testing, rail chairs , flywheels on road vehicles, hot boxes, coning types, design of coal plants welded track, wind tunnel - "Princess Royal", "Coronation and a diesel./ Approx. 400 feet / Approx. 400 feet

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Scientific Tests on Rolling Stock Part 2'

Print;400 feet plastic canister;BR TF4 Part 1 reference to old railway technical films catalogue / Title on can / Title on first frames in "Scientific Research" along with "The LMS Presents", "Produced by LMS Film Unit" textile testing - seats etc, paintwork, water analysis of perfomance of Pacific Boilers, Tyre failure. B&W, Silent / B&W, Silent

Film - Acetate - 16mm 'Scientific Tests on Rolling Stock Part 1'

Video footage taken on 26 and 27 March 1990, in steam in NRM workshop, tape 3 of 5 (linked to tape 15, 16, 21 and 22 of 26). Filmed by Gavin Mist, sound recorded by Kenneth Mellor. Low band, unedited original camera tape. Colour, sound. Duration: 20 minutes maximum

U-matic S videotape ‘Duchess of Hamilton Locomotive Overhaul project’ tape 17 of 26

1990-03-26; 1990-03-27