An amateur film by Ken Ellwood that capturing the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman at three separate locations as takes part in a special excision known as ‘The Moorlands’ along the Settle to Carlisle railway on Saturday, 26th October, 1968. The film also features the then owner of the Flying Scotsman Alan Peglar being interviewed for television on the platform of Carlisle railway station. In the final part of the film the Flying Scotsman is captured twice travelling along a section of...

An amateur film by Ken Ellwood that capturing the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman at three separate locations as takes part in a special excision known as ‘The Moorlands’ along the Settle to Carlisle railway on Saturday, 26th October, 1968. The film also features the then owner of the Flying Scotsman Alan Peglar being interviewed for television on the platform of Carlisle railway station. In the final part of the film the Flying Scotsman is captured twice travelling along a section of track near the filmmaker’s home at Skipton on North Yorkshire, once without carriages. David and John Ellwood along with friend Richard Rowley stand beside a car, David and John take a tripod and film camera from the boot and hold them up. Richard takes out and holds up what appears to be a stuffed pheasant. The boys make their way up a grassy hill towards a signal box in the distance, John carries the tripod across his shoulder. Two diesel locomotive passenger trains pass each other along a straight section of railway track at Shaps Wells. David Ellwood, wearing a blue coat, smiles at the camera. A cargo train passes pulled by a steam locomotive. John sits on a stone wall, in the distance the smoke from the funnel of an approaching train. John covers his ears as the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman passes, he turns and smiles at the camera. The Flying Scotsman passes through Skipton railway station changes to it reverses into a Carlisle railway station passing crowds of rail enthusiasts standing along the platform. Two nameplates are attached to the engine, ‘Flying Scotsman’ along the side and ‘The Moorlands’ atop the smokebox door. In dirty overalls and railway cap John Peglar stands on the platform looking through some notes, in front of him a film or television camera on a tripod. As the train steams up a reporter in handed a microphone and begins to interview Mr Peglar. The crowds watch as the Flying Scotsman begins to slowly depart the station, some on the platform wave. At the far end of the platform a film or television film crew record the train leaving. The three Ellwood boys along with three women leave Carlisle station. David, John, and Richard walk along a track, in the distance the Ribblehead viaduct. With David holding a photographic camera and Richard a film camera they both point their lens at the camera. John uses his fingers it mimics holding a camera. Two steam passenger trains cross the Ribblehead viaduct followed by the Flying Scotsman passing at speed. From Heslaker Lane near Skipton John Ellwood watches the Flying Scotsman once again travelling at speed as it passes under a road bridge. He climbs over a gate and walks towards a railway bridge over the river Aire and Heslaker Lane. Once again, the Flying Scotsman passes but this time without any carriage and pulling a second tender. John runs along the banks of the nearly flooded river and the film ends on a LMS Stanier Class 8F 48775 reversing along the Colne line near Elslack.