This film by rail enthusiast Chris Lawson adds to the extensive record the collection creates for steam traffic in the North East region and it's slow demise during the 1960's. The film opens with a view of a steam train speeding through a cutting. The high angle view is taken from the cutting's steep slope. The engine enters what maybe a tunnel or goes under a bridge.  Another cutting and a trackside view of a steam engine approaching the camera. The train speeds under a...

This film by rail enthusiast Chris Lawson adds to the extensive record the collection creates for steam traffic in the North East region and it's slow demise during the 1960's. The film opens with a view of a steam train speeding through a cutting. The high angle view is taken from the cutting's steep slope. The engine enters what maybe a tunnel or goes under a bridge.  Another cutting and a trackside view of a steam engine approaching the camera. The train speeds under a triple arched stone bridge and is pulled by two locomotives in a 'double header' formation. The first engine is unidentifiable, the second is no. 45156 a Black  Stanier 4-6-0 named 'Ayrshire Yeomanry'. The film cuts to railway enthusiasts on a track waiting for the approach of a steam train on a nearby line, the engine speeds past (a little blurred) the engine is no. 70013, 'Oliver Cromwell'. It goes under a bridge and speeds off into the distance. Another trackside view follows of the same steam train as it goes past the camera at speed. The steam engine disappears on the farside track, as on the nearside track a diesel multiple unit (DMU) approaches. Next a different location and what appears to be murky weather on a moorland railway, a small brick building stands in the middle distance. On the nearside track a steam train speeds towards the camera, number 4472 the 'Flying Scotsman'. The passenger train disappears into the distance and the film cuts to a trackside view of a speeding steam train approaching the camera, again its the Flying Scotsman. The film cuts to a more industrial scene and a small tank engine standing stationary with some industrial buildings in the background. The film cuts to the engine making its way slowly on track embedded in the tarmac. The location is a shipbuilding yard or factory, probably the Pallion Shipyard of William Doxford & Sons Ltd. in Sunderland, and the engine one of the 0-4-0CT OC Crane Tanks, possibly "Roker" (Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 7006/1940). The camera pans left to reveal the hull of a ship being built. The film ends with a long shot showing the stationary steam engine.