Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 4760 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
PUSH AND PULL | 1968 | 1968-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 6 mins 46 secs Subject: Railways |
Summary This film is part of the Gordon Riley collection and contains lots of footage of steam trains making their way along the tracks in the Worth Valley area as part of the celebrations for the Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening in 1968. |
Description
This film is part of the Gordon Riley collection and contains lots of footage of steam trains making their way along the tracks in the Worth Valley area as part of the celebrations for the Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening in 1968.
Title-Nodrog presents
Title-Push and Pull
The film opens with lots of steam trains driving along the tracks; there is a close of steam engine number 30072.
Following this is a shot of newspaper articles which have the headlines `it's D-day for Worth Valley...
This film is part of the Gordon Riley collection and contains lots of footage of steam trains making their way along the tracks in the Worth Valley area as part of the celebrations for the Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening in 1968.
Title-Nodrog presents
Title-Push and Pull
The film opens with lots of steam trains driving along the tracks; there is a close of steam engine number 30072.
Following this is a shot of newspaper articles which have the headlines `it's D-day for Worth Valley rail amateurs' and `Full Steam Ahead now for railway',
Title-Saturday June 29th 1968
There is a large sign for Keighley (Worth Valley) train station and then there is a shot of a group of men and women walking along the road beside a steam train which is coming to a stop. On the front of the train is the sign `Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening Special' and a badge with number 41241 on it.
There are many people watching from the platform as the train leaves the station, while some men and women are inside the train looking out. In the next scene the train arrives in another station where crowds have gathered and the press are waiting to take photographs, and then it leaves again.
A brass band is playing for the waiting crowds in the train station. A poster reads `Worth Valley Railway opening train, Saturday 29th June 1968'. People stand at the track gate watching and taking pictures as a train goes past. The track is re-opened and then the guard jumps back into his cabin on the train.
Title-The End.
Context
The age of steam lingers on as the `Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening Special' pulls into Keighley station, and hardly an anorak in sight.
On the day that Hyde Park hosted its first free concert – with Pink Floyd and Tyrannosaurus Rex – those preferring the chuff chuff sound of a steam locomotive were looking backwards rather than forwards to the age of progressive rock. It’s the opening of one of the first heritage railways in Britain, the Worth Valley Railway, and scores of railway...
The age of steam lingers on as the `Worth Valley Railway Re-Opening Special' pulls into Keighley station, and hardly an anorak in sight.
On the day that Hyde Park hosted its first free concert – with Pink Floyd and Tyrannosaurus Rex – those preferring the chuff chuff sound of a steam locomotive were looking backwards rather than forwards to the age of progressive rock. It’s the opening of one of the first heritage railways in Britain, the Worth Valley Railway, and scores of railway enthusiasts have flocked to Keighley to witness the historic re-opening of the line, with full brass band fanfare. This film was made by Leeds Movie Makers member Gordon Riley, one of a collection made during the 1960s and ‘70s, including several other fine railway films. Although the Worth Valley Railway is only five miles long, it is a lovely scenic route through the heart of the Pennine Moors, stopping off at Haworth, and the location for filming the classic film ‘The Railway Children.’ The line was closed to passengers in December 1961 and to goods in June 1962 by BR before the Beeching Report. Thankfully a preservation society was soon formed, and it has continued to be run by volunteers ever since. The preservation society is looking for sponsors to help put the 41241 Ivat tank loco, seen in the film, back into operation. |