An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood begins at a rail yard near Carlisle in Cumbria in 1967 where steam locomotives are still being used. However, the film also features lines of now obsolete steam engines waiting to be scrapped. Next, a visit to Linstock near Carlisle and a steam powered sawmill followed by a ‘steam party’ or rally held by Syd Sutton in the village of Beckerment in Cumbria. Finally, in the village of Little Bampton in Cumbria the owner of Rushton and Hornby 113143 steam...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood begins at a rail yard near Carlisle in Cumbria in 1967 where steam locomotives are still being used. However, the film also features lines of now obsolete steam engines waiting to be scrapped. Next, a visit to Linstock near Carlisle and a steam powered sawmill followed by a ‘steam party’ or rally held by Syd Sutton in the village of Beckerment in Cumbria. Finally, in the village of Little Bampton in Cumbria the owner of Rushton and Hornby 113143 steam traction engine takes it for a ride to the nearby village of Aikton. Title: Steam in Cumberland 1968 Title: Kingmoor Carlisle – Not Quite 68 A railway goods yard with multiple tracks and a road leading away from it. A British Rail Class 8 Diesel Shunter D3736 passes, in the near distance a series of steam locomotives parked up along a track. Amongst these trains are two Britannia Class locomotive 70038 Robin Hood and 70031 Byron. Steam comes out of a railway shed, beside it a man taking photographs of the various locomotives inside. Inside the shed itself steam comes off various parts of one of the Britannia Class engines. A man crosses a track where another locomotive is being reversed into the shed. Back outside two men cross the tracks past more parked up locomotives, a goods train passes along another track pulled by a steam train. As it passes a diesel cargo train passes at speed pulling a train of British Rail wagons. Another steam locomotive slowly passes a pile of wood stacked beside the track, it is pulling two other steam locomotive and a wagon. An LMS Black Stainer Class Five 45038 spins its wheels as it slowly moves forward along a track, the driver looks out from the cabin. Several locomotives inside a shed changes to a fireman filling the water tank of a another LMS Black Stainer Class Five 44672. A rusty looking British Rail Class 9F 92125 pulls away from a coal drop passing several coal wagons parked nearby. The driver climbs down from the cab and fills the tank with water before the locomotive pulls away. The locomotive now stopped has water coming out of the engine onto the track with smoke coming out of the funnel. Inside the cabin the driver uses long metal poles to move the ash inside the firebox which falls onto the trackside. Using a shovel, he scoops more ash from the firebox via a small opening after which the engine moves off again. Another locomotive moves forward and the driver of fireman also empties the ash from the firebox onto the track. A series of steam locomotives travelling around the yard, the camera focusing on the bogies. A diesel shunter approaches the Britannia Class locomotive 70024 Vulcan. Title: Linstock Sawmill Exterior of a building made of corrugated iron with smoke coming from a chimney on the roof. John Crowther stand chatting with another man beside a steam powered saw, a third man oils the machine which moves up and down in a sawing motion. Title: S. Sutton’s Steam Party Beckermet Visitors looking over a series of steam traction engines and a threshing machine outside a shed beside a railway line. Peter Ellwood sits on a flatbed lorry, beside him several model steam traction engines under a cover. One of the models on display changes to a real steam traction engine in operation and two boys looking it over. A man stands on the footplate of a Robey General Purpose Engine 28094 Pride of the Walk changing to the Garrett Tractor 33953 Annie being driven past. A man with a cigarette in his mouth stands on the footplate of another traction engine followed by Zeke Myers and a companion driving a McLaren General Purpose Engine 787 Loughrigg into the field where it is connected to the threshing machine seen earlier via a large belt. Visitors wonder past other engines on display, nearby the railway line runs parallel to the site of the rally. The Garrett Tractor 33953 Annie is now attached to the threshing machine and a crowd stands around watching the engine in operation. In the distance the Windscale nuclear site. Title: Mr Burn’s Ruston Hornsby 113143 Little Brampton Outside a cottage a Rushton and Hornby 113143 steam traction engine in operation, two men walk around it as a small boy stands on the footplate in control of the engine pulling leavers and turning valves. The owner Mr Burns alongside John Crowther drive the engine along a country road, the boy chasing after it. They pass a roadside for the village of Aikton after which the engine is reversed pulling up beside another road sign. On the footplate again the boy stands beside one of the men, the engine in operation. End title: The end