An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood that features several special excursion trains services put on by British Rail during the final weeks of steam locomotion along the Skipton, Hellifield, and Colne railway lines in August, 1968. Ken joins other rail enthusiast on platforms or along the tracks to watch mainly LMS Stainer Class Five's, also known as the ‘Black Fives’, pull their last trains on British Rail tracks, many to be scrapped in the following months. A pair of hands opens an...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood that features several special excursion trains services put on by British Rail during the final weeks of steam locomotion along the Skipton, Hellifield, and Colne railway lines in August, 1968. Ken joins other rail enthusiast on platforms or along the tracks to watch mainly LMS Stainer Class Five's, also known as the ‘Black Fives’, pull their last trains on British Rail tracks, many to be scrapped in the following months. A pair of hands opens an edition of ‘Railway World’ from October 1968 turning to a page and article entitled ‘The end of BR steam – the last week’. Another magazine is placed on top, the title of the article in this edition ‘Societies Farewell to Steam’. The LMS Stainer Class Five 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry steam locomotive comes out of a tunnel and speeds past pulling a train of passenger carriages. It them passes again in the opposite direction disappearing off into the distance. Two Stainer Class Five's 48773 and 44781 steam locomotives passes through Skipton railway station pulling a train of passenger carriages. Several rail enthusiasts stand along the trackside as it passes. Many of the passengers onboard look out of windows, a sign in one of the windows reads ‘Farewell to Steam’. Another banner attached to the rear of the last carriage reads ‘The End’. Another train pulled by a Stainer Class Five 45407 and British Rail Standard Class Five 73069 pulls into a wet railway station, again the passengers onboard looking out most of the windows. Along the trackside engineers disconnect the carriages from the engines which steam away, reversing along another track and being re-attached at the other side of the train. David Ellwood stands on the platform watching. Another passenger train being pulled by two Stainer Class Fives 45390 and 45025 passes slowly through a railway station with a signal box at the far end. As it leaves, it passes a second passenger train travelling in the opposite direction. The train passes over a bridge along an embankment where laying in the grass at the bottom of the embankment is David Ellwood along with his brother John, and a friend. A small stream passes through the embankment and David places a bottle into it following it with the current. David picks primrose flowers from a plant growing on the embankment. A diesel locomotive pulls a train of wagons along a rural railway line, at the rear a breaks van. Another passenger train speeding past a signal box and along an embankment over two bridges being pulled by two Stanier Black Five's 45342 and 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry. From several vantage points along its route the train passes including through a railway station. End title: The end