An amateur film produced by John Scorer believed to show the last train to depart Willington Quay railway station on the 20th July 1973. As well as footage of passengers getting of and the train departing, the film also records two men looking around an old disused ticket office and the surrounding terraced streets of Willington Quay itself. The ‘Willington Quay’ sign on the platform of the railway station, nearby two men speaks with the driver of a British rail diesel passenger train. The...

An amateur film produced by John Scorer believed to show the last train to depart Willington Quay railway station on the 20th July 1973. As well as footage of passengers getting of and the train departing, the film also records two men looking around an old disused ticket office and the surrounding terraced streets of Willington Quay itself. The ‘Willington Quay’ sign on the platform of the railway station, nearby two men speaks with the driver of a British rail diesel passenger train. The train pulling out of the station is followed by another pulling in and passengers disembarking. Again, this train pulls out of the station as passengers cross the track via a footbridge. From the footbridge over the railway a road leading away from the station passes between a number of terraced streets, halfway down a church with tower. Two men stand beside the wall of a house, ones is taking a photograph of the other. Written n chalk on the wall ‘Riverside Farewell and Goodbye’. Writing on a door reads ‘Farewell Riverside Regrets no More Tickets, No More Trains after Today’. Children play in the street nearby; a man walks past carrying a rug over his shoulders. A poster of Mickey and Minnie Mouse beside a red telephone box ask ‘Keep Britain Tidy’. Boarded up terraced houses beside a piece of waste ground at Norman Terrace changes to a street of well-maintained houses along Byron Avenue. Cars are parked in the street and in the back alley. A double decker bus and other traffic travel along Hadrian Road passing the Albion Inn. More views of terraced streets with the film ending on views of the footbridge and railway platform.