Steam on 35mm - Volume 3 and 4

Volune 3:
This selection features out-takes from “Brief Encounter”. Filmed at night in 1945, these shots never made it into the finished production but nonetheless retain all the atmosphere of the original film. There are various “takes” of the classic LMS local services arriving at Carnforth as well as express runbys - actually filmed at Watford Junction! Out-takes from “The 39 Steps” are also featured. The first version (filmed in black & white) shows LNER arrivals and departures from Edinburgh Waverley in 1935. The 2nd version (in colour) also features action at Waverley as well as on the Forth Bridge in 1958. Additionally there are sequences taken for back projection, i.e. a 35mm camera was placed at the rear of the train and filmed the complete departure from Waverley - not a Driver’s Eye View but a Guard’s Eye View! Highlights include: GWR Paddington (1937, 1954), Golant Halt, the Looe branch etc. etc., runbys on the Oban line in Scotland (1948), plus the Southern at Charing Cross (c1935) and much more. There are even some magnificent shots taken on the Longmoor Military Railway (1960). 35mm Film (80% B&W)

Volume 4:
The fourth collection of steam action taken from top quality motion picture out-takes. What you will see and hear is the golden age of steam. Single shots and entire sequences from the GWR, LMS, LNER, and SOUTHERN from 1935 to 1948 and British Railways up until the end of steam at Waterloo in 1967. There are 110 clips in total. Highlights include: A series of GWR runbys in 1943 at Heyford in Oxfordshire (B&W). Various shots from Paddington both inside and outside from 1930s (B&W) up to 1963. Runbys on the Midland Mainline and departures from St Pancras circa 1938, including whole trains and Bankers at the rear (B&W). LNER arrivals Leicester Central 1940s (B&W). A wide variety of steam arrivals and departures from both Waterloo and Victoria taken from the mid 1930s to the late 1940s, many also including assisting tank engines at the rear (B&W). A4 Sir Nigel Gresley in LNER blue livery at Nine Elms Shed and heading a subsequent rail-tour from Waterloo in June 1967 (Colour). Merchant Navy & West Country Pacifics at Waterloo and Raynes Park on their last day of steam in July 1967 (Colour). Plus shots from places as diverse Euston, Kings Cross, Nottingham (Victoria), Leicester, Southampton, Plymouth North Road, and even Killiecrankie in Scotland.

75% is in black & white, 25% colour. Narrated by John Huntley