Chris Lawson filmmaker and railway enthusiast travels from his usual North East locations to the Bluebell Railway, a heritage railway in Sussex. He films working engines which would have been a familiar sight on the Southern railway network. The film begins as a steam engine reverses along a railway pulling a train of carriages. The engine is numbered 473 and named Birch Grove. This a class E-4, Billington R J, 0-6-2 tank engine painted in London, Brighton and South Coast Railway colours....

Chris Lawson filmmaker and railway enthusiast travels from his usual North East locations to the Bluebell Railway, a heritage railway in Sussex. He films working engines which would have been a familiar sight on the Southern railway network. The film begins as a steam engine reverses along a railway pulling a train of carriages. The engine is numbered 473 and named Birch Grove. This a class E-4, Billington R J, 0-6-2 tank engine painted in London, Brighton and South Coast Railway colours. The engine pulls the train towards a station building in the distance. Another engine approaches from the opposite direction. The number on the engine is 72 and on the side of the engine is written Newhaven Harbour Company, and is presently preserved at the Bluebell Railway as 672 Fenchurch. The engine is an A1X class Marsh 0-6-0 tank engine. Next 'Birch Grove' comes past with a full train, a notice on the smoke box reads 'Wealden Rambler'. It goes off into the distance taking a left fork at the junction nearby. A long view shows one of the steam  engines reversing with a passenger train. It disappears into a wooded section of the railway. An indistinct section follows of random footage taken from a car(?) the operator possibly left camera running accidentally. The film cuts to a long distant view of a 'double header' [two engine] train heading across open country. This is followed by a trackside view of a reversing steam train. Number 72 'Newhaven Harbour Company' pulls a train of carriages.  A low angle trackside view follows as Birch Grove (?) speeds past with a train. The film cuts to another much larger steam passenger train as it goes past over a steel bridge. The film ends in a railway cutting and a trackside view shows engine no. 45156 'Ayrshire Yeomanry' going past with a full passenger train.