Waverley47708 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Found a link to this via BR Coaching Stock forum http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-great-north-of-scotland-railway-films-1963/ When trainspotters, even junior ones dressed in shirt and tie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Yes, saw the link. Good colour images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Some great footage there, so much of it of unstaged "daily life" as was. Also worth nothing just how clean most of the locos are, aside from the obvious occasional 64A and 65A interlopers of course! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulzer27jd Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Also worth nothing just how clean most of the locos are, Indeed - magazine weathering"experts" please note. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Great film - Nice to see the Northbridge Signalbox in the background!! Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Love the Moray lines footage, especially NBL Type 2s in action. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waverley47708 Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 Near the start of the film just after the steam hauled postal picks up the mail there is a shot of a pair of Class 26s at the same location. They are stationary then restart just beyond a signal showing clear. Wonder why they were stopped beyond a signal showing clear. Any thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted July 20, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2015 I think someone on the forum ID'd the location as Stonehaven, in which case the train with the 26s is probably an Aberdeen-Edinburgh express. Footage later in the clip showed a similar train with 10 coaches on so if this train is similar, it's too long for the platform and has to stop with the locos in advance of the signal. If this was a regular occurrence, it would be covered by local instructions or an entry in the Sectional Appendix. (IIRC fort william was similar) Great little film with so many interesting things - shunter with wagons fore and aft, DMU tablet catcher in use, railbuses, royal train etc etc. BTW, watched on a v. small screen so couldn't make it out, which Deltic was being named? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJCT Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 ..................... BTW, watched on a v. small screen so couldn't make it out, which Deltic was being named? Given the cameraman's association with the Gordon Highlanders, I'd guess it was D9016 "Gordon Highlander" - hence the presence of GNoSR No.49 "Gordon Highlander" at the same event ! Alasdair Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted July 20, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2015 What an excellent film. Many thanks for posting it. Feel re invigorated to get up the attic and run some trains now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinzaboy Posted July 20, 2015 Share Posted July 20, 2015 Wish my mum had knitted me a pirate jumper like that!! Great film; thanks for the link! Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lochinvar Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I haven't seen any of this before. There's some real gems there.....in particular,a rebuilt A2/2 in LNE livery but carrying BR numbers (they didn't last long in Scotland after that) and ultra-clean double-headed B1s on what I take to be the royal train arriving at Ballater. So many thanks to the OP. DR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.