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If you’ve ever watched “The Fugitive” with Harrison Ford you will, no doubt, remember the train crash. No models involved, all full size, some of it is still on location. It was filmed on a private/heritage railroad, the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Though their website barely mentions ithttps://www.gsmr.com You can see it on Google Maps:… Read More The Fugitive train crash
Another car boot find is this home cine film of the Great Dorset Steam Fair. Date unknown, but looking at the clothes and cars I think it is early 1970’s Thanks for reading. Check out my other posts on travel, heritage railways and more.Please click like and subscribe for more random railways content. Follow me… Read More Great Dorset Steam Fair
This 1963 silent film shows various steam and diesel locomotives climbing to Shap summit, on the West Coast Main Line. The tank engines running backwards are bankers, used to push trains up the 1 in 75 gradient, they then run back down the slope and wait for the next train that needs assistance.There’s a few… Read More Car boot sale film, Over Shap, 1963
In its heyday Builth Road was a thriving community in its own right. The junction of the Central Wales Railway and the Mid Wales Railway was built on two different levels, with a spur linking the two. The Central WalesRailway’s High Level Station opened for traffic in 1866. The Mid Wales line ran from Brecon… Read More Builth Road Station
Further to the last post on Gordon Burley & the 298 Airborne, these slides were found in the same box. It appears that Gordon Burley spent some time travelling through Northern India, The Himalayas and Tibet in the late 1940’s. One unscanned slide has the wording “Journey to Tibet, an illustrated talk by Gordon Burley”,… Read More Further Auction Finds
Further to my recent post on the 1960’s railway slides discovered at auction, a slight diversion into non railway territory. Along with the railway slides were a number of images of RAF planes and personnel. And some of Tibet and the Himalayan region, more of those next week. From what I can piece together, these… Read More More Auction Finds
Browsing at a car boot sale last year (a type of flea market for non-English readers) I found several old cine films, including this one. It’s a Walton Films documentary of a trip during the last days of the LMS before nationalisation, in 1948. It follows the journey of LMS Jubilee class No. 5614 Leeward… Read More Day in the life of an engine driver, on Super 8
Last year I picked up an old box of slides at auction. I noticed a few railway images amongst the general views of life in what turned out to be Edinburgh in the early 1960’s. In fact, as far as I can deduce from the collection and the slide captions it was the work of… Read More Auction Finds
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