This is a film made by supporters of the North York Moors Railway as an annual summary of events relating to the NYMR.  It includes the ceremony for a new clock for Pickering Station, attended by Leon Brittan MP and Lady Normanby. The film begins showing the Silver Jubilee special train going past Newton Dale Halt, filmed from above, and arriving at Pickering.  Conservative MP Leon Brittan is on the platform talking with Keith Snowden, waiting for the unveiling of the new clock, which all...

This is a film made by supporters of the North York Moors Railway as an annual summary of events relating to the NYMR.  It includes the ceremony for a new clock for Pickering Station, attended by Leon Brittan MP and Lady Normanby. The film begins showing the Silver Jubilee special train going past Newton Dale Halt, filmed from above, and arriving at Pickering.  Conservative MP Leon Brittan is on the platform talking with Keith Snowden, waiting for the unveiling of the new clock, which all stations are legally obliged to have.  A large crowd has assembled on the platform to witness the ceremony, performed by Lady Normanby.  Jack Neal, the Station Master, checks his pocket watch against the new clock.  A plaque gives details of the clock.  The VIPs take a train to Grossmont, and get off on arrival in the pouring rain.  They walk through a narrow tunnel to perform the official opening of Grossmont Railway Museum, performed by R.H. Reeves of the English Tourist Board. The film switches to show a gang laying down new concrete sleepers, and placing the rails into position, all done by hand.  A woman walks by the ruins of Skelton’s Tower in Newton Dale, and looks down on the Black 5, George Stephenson, passing underneath.  Then it goes on to show volunteers loading a lorry with waste paper, with the narrator giving an account of all of the items that have been purchased with the money raised.  A man also delivers salvage glass on the back of a trailer to a local glassworks.  On 3rd December the North East Locomotive Preservation Group were at the NRM to place on loan the P3. Ian Storey of the Group hands over the locomotive to the Museum’s keeper, Dr Coiley.  The film finishes showing the P3 hauling a passenger train.