This film by  filmmaker and railway enthusiast Chris Lawson shows working steam engines in the Tyneside area, with other footage showing lines and engines further afield, including Tebay on the West side of England and also the  some final activity on a railway line about to close in Derbyshire. The film opens  with a trackside view of a steam engine reversing towards the camera. The camera follows it and pans right stopping on a railway gradient sign which reads '1 in 30 and 1 in...

This film by  filmmaker and railway enthusiast Chris Lawson shows working steam engines in the Tyneside area, with other footage showing lines and engines further afield, including Tebay on the West side of England and also the  some final activity on a railway line about to close in Derbyshire. The film opens  with a trackside view of a steam engine reversing towards the camera. The camera follows it and pans right stopping on a railway gradient sign which reads '1 in 30 and 1 in 60'. With snow covering the landscape another steam engine makes its way along an embankment and across a bridge.  A steam hauled train heads towards a tunnel along an embankment, followed by a view of a  goods train pulled by engine no. 65894, a W.Worsdell J27 (NER Class P3) 0-6-0 locomotive [Still running and owned by the North East Locomotive Preservation Group]. A Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) passes the camera and continues on its way.  Steam engine no. 63429,  a Q6, passes by this engine worked at Tyne Dock, and was disposed of and cut up on Tyneside in 1967.  A panning long view follows of  engine number 63429 (?) as it is overtaken by a fast diesel-electric (?) train. Another view follows of terraced houses next to a curve in the track, with a steam train no. 63429 in the distance. The engine approaches and speeds past. The same engine is viewed from a low angle as it goes past along an embankment. Steam engine 44857 speeds through a station. This is a Black Stanier 4-6-0 based at Leeds [disposed of in 1967]. Another steam engine speeds towards a station platform (possibly Tebay). A long view shows two engines one pulling and and one pushing a train. Next track maintenance works which appears to be the lifting of old railway track. A long view follows of a small steam engine pulling some wagons along an embankment. An engine approaches, number 68012  J94 class, a board mounted on the smoke box of the locomotive reads: 'Journey's End April 1967' .This may refer to a line closure, although the engine itself was withdrawn from service in October 1967. The short train the engine is pulling passes a group of enthusiasts take photographs at the track side. The film cuts to the same engine passing through a station, and past Parsley Hay signal box on the Cromford line, Derbyshire which closed in 1967. General views in long shot and close up showing the engine making some shunting manoeuvres. Emerging from a tunnel in a cutting, the engine reverses pulling a brake wagon,. More general views follow of the engine at work.  A panning view follows of a steam train making its way along an embankment. Then a track side view of a steam engine with a train of wagons approaching the camera. The engine number is 65855, a W Worsdell, Raven locomotive, class J27. This is followed by another view of the engine making its own way along a railway line. The film ends with general views of this engine (?) pulling various trains, some shots are out of focus.