This is a film, part of the Frank Dean Collection, of one of the last journeys along the Pickering to Whitby railway before it closed in March 1965. Members of the Railway Travellers Correspondence Society travel in the brake van for a last look at the line. It is narrated by Frank Dean. Title - Country Film 'Impala' goes to Whitby Photographed by Frank Dean Pickering, Yorkshire 3.3.1965 The film begins with two men on a station platform with, behind them, a steam shunting...

This is a film, part of the Frank Dean Collection, of one of the last journeys along the Pickering to Whitby railway before it closed in March 1965. Members of the Railway Travellers Correspondence Society travel in the brake van for a last look at the line. It is narrated by Frank Dean. Title - Country Film 'Impala' goes to Whitby Photographed by Frank Dean Pickering, Yorkshire 3.3.1965 The film begins with two men on a station platform with, behind them, a steam shunting locomotive pulling a brake van as it leaves the station covered in snow. The narration states that the steam locomotives have been on the Whitby line since June 1847, but that on Monday 8th March 1965 it will come to an end, with the Beeching axe about to fall. Today members of the Railway Travellers Correspondence Society are taking a last nostalgic look at the line. The journey is filmed from the brake van as the train makes its way through the snowy landscape, passing Newton Dale. The narration provides a history of the line and places being passed. It passes the old deviation junction where the track goes down a steep incline, passing a train being propelled the other way. It passes Grosmont tunnel and station, Birkley or Eskdale signal box, Woodland's Farm siding, and comes into Whitby after the 26 mile journey, with someone else filming just in front of Frank Dean in one of the brake vans. The film shows the wheels of the train in close up as it comes to a stop. Titles - The End Country films. Notes from Film Spool Case: "IMPALA" Class B1 61002; Goods Train Malton to Whitby 3rd March 1965 (Railway Line Closed on 8th March 1965) Filmed at 16fps; Std 8mm Sound On)