Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3958 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| PICKERING FLYER | 1987 | 1987-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 5 mins Credits: This film was produced by Ken Clough Subject: Transport Railways |
| Summary This is a film made by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust to advertise the service between Grosmont and Pickering. It takes the form of a sped-up journey between the two stations that only takes two minutes. |
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Description
This is a film made by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust to advertise the service between Grosmont and Pickering. It takes the form of a sped-up journey between the two stations that only takes two minutes.
The film opens with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway logo, before zooming in on a train waiting at a station platform. This is followed by a sign for Pickering Station and a shot of the driver climbing aboard the engine, which has the name 'The Pickering Flyer'. The...
This is a film made by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust to advertise the service between Grosmont and Pickering. It takes the form of a sped-up journey between the two stations that only takes two minutes.
The film opens with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway logo, before zooming in on a train waiting at a station platform. This is followed by a sign for Pickering Station and a shot of the driver climbing aboard the engine, which has the name 'The Pickering Flyer'. The railway announcer explains that the train on Platform One is the 10.20 for Grosmont, which would be arriving just two minutes later.
The conductor speaks to the driver, who then pulls a lever, so beginning the journey at breakneck speed to Grosmont. The train then hurtles through the countryside, stopping at Levisham and Goathland before setting off again and arriving at Platform 3 at Grosmont. The driver gets out of his compartment and checks his watch. The film closes with the conductor at Grosmont attaching a Power Management Unit (PMU) - that regulates the power output of a device - to the front of the train. As the credits roll the narrator asks the audience: "Why not spend the day with us, and take the same journey at a more leisurely pace?"
Title | The North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust York Group Committee Wishes to Thank All Organisations Who Financially Supported This Advertising Project.
Title | Rowntree Mackintosh PLC
John Smiths Tadcaster Brewery Ltd.
Tate Smith Ltd - Sundella Drinks
Joseph Terry & Sons
Trusthouse Forte
Title | This film was produced by Ken Clough
A Amatuer [sic] Cinephotographer
Copyright 1987
Context
If only all train journeys would take as long as this one! It’s a hair-raisingly swift trip along the Whitby to Pickering Railway, a line that was originally worked by horses before the introduction of steam in 1845. The railway was first opened in 1836 with the help of George Stephenson, only to be closed in 1965 as a result of the so-called ‘Beeching Axe’. Re-opened in 1973 as the North York Moors Railway, the line is now one of the busiest steam heritage lines in the world, carrying over...
If only all train journeys would take as long as this one! It’s a hair-raisingly swift trip along the Whitby to Pickering Railway, a line that was originally worked by horses before the introduction of steam in 1845. The railway was first opened in 1836 with the help of George Stephenson, only to be closed in 1965 as a result of the so-called ‘Beeching Axe’. Re-opened in 1973 as the North York Moors Railway, the line is now one of the busiest steam heritage lines in the world, carrying over 300,000 passengers every year. This film from 1987 shows a sped-up version of the journey from Pickering to Grosmont, calling at Levisham and Goathland along the way. It was made by amateur filmmaker Ken Clough, who shot a number of films relating to the railway line and even trained to become a diesel driver after working at the Rowntree’s Chocolate Factory in York.
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