An amateur film by Ken Ellwood begins with him and his two youngest sons John and Peter taking a trip on the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman from Bank Top railway station in Darlington travelling through Newcastle and along the Northumbrian coastline to Edinburgh Waverly Station and finally across the Forth Rail Bridge. At Horton-in-Ribblesdale the boys watch trains pass near the station and help the signalman change the signals inside his signal box. Next Peter along with his older sister...

An amateur film by Ken Ellwood begins with him and his two youngest sons John and Peter taking a trip on the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman from Bank Top railway station in Darlington travelling through Newcastle and along the Northumbrian coastline to Edinburgh Waverly Station and finally across the Forth Rail Bridge. At Horton-in-Ribblesdale the boys watch trains pass near the station and help the signalman change the signals inside his signal box. Next Peter along with his older sister Deborah watches as the Flying Scotsman speeds past before taking a walk across the dis-used Lowgill viaduct near Kendal in Cumbria. The final part of the film features John and Peter along with friend Philip Sands hiking through the snow to the summit of Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales. Sitting on its plinth at Darlington’s Bank Top railway station is Locomotion No. 1, beside it the 1845 built locomotive Derwent. Peter Ellwood runs over and stands beside a brass plaque underneath Locomotion No. 1. The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman pulls into Bank Top station, rail enthusiasts with cameras stand around admiring the steam locomotive, a man steps down from the footplate as the driver and firemen look out onto the platform. From a carriage window the Flying Scotsman pull out of the station passing a water tower and over a bridge as it heads north. As the train crosses the High-Level Bridge over the River Tyne towards Newcastle Central Station John Ellwood sits in his seat across from his brother. The train speeds through the Northumbrian countryside passing farms and animals in the fields and the village of Spittal with the Berwick Lighthouse and North Sea in the distance. The journey continues north passing under a bridge through an embankment and along the Berwickshire and Lothian coastline. In his seat John is reading Robinson Crusoe, he holds up an image from the book. At Edinburgh Waverly Station the Flying Scotsman sits on a platform. Alan Peglar, the then owner of the Flying Scotsman, wearing a boilersuit and cap speaks with another man in a suit. As the Flying Scotsman approaches the Forth Rail Bridge a diesel locomotive passing in the opposite direction. Crossing the bridge, the Forth Road Bridge can be seen in in the distance followed by houses on the northside of the Firth of Forth below. A man takes a photograph of the Flying Scotsman as it slowly picks up speed heading along the track. Outside Edinburgh Castle John Ellwood passes a guardsman on duty, inside the castle he looks over the cannons on display and out across the Edinburgh skyline below. John climbs a cobbled pathway leading to St Margaret’s Chapel, a sign points in that direction and he and other tourists look over more cannon. Holding hands John and Peter Ellwood stand near to Horton-in-Ribblesdale railways station watching as a diesel locomotive pulls wagon slowly through the station. A British Rail Class 55 diesel locomotive slowly pass them several times in both directions, the second time pulling a couple of wagons and a brakes van. In the signal box at Horton-in-Ribblesdale John assists the signalman to pull the signal levers and watches as a passenger train speeds past. Peter then helps the signalman return the levers to their original position. Sitting on concrete blocks beside a railway track Deborah and Peter Ellwood watch as the LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman speeds past around a bend. Another man beside the track waves. Deborah and Peter walk along the track before climbing over a fence and walking through a small wood covered in bluebells. They stand along a country road with Lowgill viaduct in the near distance, Deborah holds a bouquet of wild flowers. An orchid grows along the verge of the road. The two of them make their way across the dis-used viaduct looking over the side and the drop below. They find a manhole and drop stones down it. In the distance a passenger train speeds past, they carefully climb down an embankment and race towards a stream passing under the viaduct. Peter walks under a old pack horse bridge over the stream. In the distance a snow-covered Pen-y-ghent seen on the other side of a farm gate. John and Peter Ellwood along with friend Philip Sands run forward climbing atop the gate posing for the camera. The boys race along a snow-covered track changing to John atop a stone embankment watched by the other two below. He jumps off and rolls around in the snow. The boys pass a farm and walk across a snowy fields towards Pen-y-ghent. Peter is passed an icicle from a stream which he proceeds to eat. Nearing the base of Pen-y-ghent the boys climb over a stile and look back along the route they’ve walked. They continue their hike to the summit of Pen-y-ghent with Peter falling over on an embankment of snow as he was attempting to climb it. He continues his assent across rocky outcrops following his brothers who are someway ahead. At the summit all three boys swing around a pole which sticks out of a stone cairn posing for the camera. They race over a wall via a snow embankment and on the others side sit against the wall eating sandwiches.