Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5437 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| NYMR NEWS NO. 4 | 1976-1977 | 1976-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Sound Duration: 14 mins 3 secs Credits: N&KC Production (Ken Clough) Subject: Railways |
| Summary This is a film made by Ken Clough as a member of the York section of the supporters of the North York Moors Railway. It is one of many annual summaries featuring events relating to the NYMR. It shows various trains on the line, and also on the now defunct line to Dunnington, past Rowntrees Halt, and lastly a LNER steam enthusiast’s day on the last Sunday in October. |
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Description
This is a film made by Ken Clough as a member of the York section of the supporters of the North York Moors Railway. It is one of many annual summaries featuring events relating to the NYMR. It shows various trains on the line, and also on the now defunct line to Dunnington, past Rowntrees Halt, and lastly a LNER steam enthusiast’s day on the last Sunday in October.
Title – N & KC Production 1976-1977
Title – NYMR News
Number 062 tankard 29 is seen leaving Grossmont station and...
This is a film made by Ken Clough as a member of the York section of the supporters of the North York Moors Railway. It is one of many annual summaries featuring events relating to the NYMR. It shows various trains on the line, and also on the now defunct line to Dunnington, past Rowntrees Halt, and lastly a LNER steam enthusiast’s day on the last Sunday in October.
Title – N & KC Production 1976-1977
Title – NYMR News
Number 062 tankard 29 is seen leaving Grossmont station and entering the tunnel. Outside the Grossmont shed Ted Smith works on engine 31. Visitors are in the viewing gallery in the shed, and looking down at an engine being restored. Then no. 29 is enters Goathland Station. The engine is watered, detached and picks up fresh coaches for the return trip to Grossmont. The train going onto Pickering is headed by a diesel type 2, which was acquired because of the drought of 1976. There is a photo of the end of the line at Pickering Station when it was under British Rail when there were two tracks, and another photograph as it is under NYMR control, with just one track.
The Moorlander runs to Pickering for the first time, headed 4767, George Stephenson. The engine is run around, with Alan Burkin “wrestling with the points”. Then the Hardwicke (240) and the Midland compound pulling a special which goes to Carnforth from York, via Harrogate, in September. They take a trip on a train along the Foss Island branch passing Rowntrees Halt to Layerthorpe Station, being driven by John Bellwood, helped by his son Andrew. It then drives to Dunnington and back. There is another experimental run on 9th October, with passengers leaning out of the window at Dunnington. The LNER hold a steam enthusiasts day on the last Sunday in October. Ken Clough films from Darnall Bridge. First is K1 (2005), then Q6, followed by George Stephenson, and P3 running light and returning with a goods train.
Context
This is one of a series of annual summaries of the North York Moors Railway made by Ken Clough. They each feature the workings, special events and locomotives on the line during the 1970s. But perhaps of greater interest is that they all identify those volunteers working on the railway, including, in this film, engineer and steam enthusiast Ted Smith, driver John Bellwood and his son Andrew, and Alan Burkin “wrestling with the points”.
This is one of a large collection of films made by Ken...
This is one of a series of annual summaries of the North York Moors Railway made by Ken Clough. They each feature the workings, special events and locomotives on the line during the 1970s. But perhaps of greater interest is that they all identify those volunteers working on the railway, including, in this film, engineer and steam enthusiast Ted Smith, driver John Bellwood and his son Andrew, and Alan Burkin “wrestling with the points”.
This is one of a large collection of films made by Ken Clough, who was a member of the York section of the supporters of the NYMR, and trained with them to drive diesels. Ken was an engineering designer for Rowntree who also filmed many of their manufacturing processes. The North York Moors Railway started life back in 1832 with George Stephenson, opening in 1936, first with horse-drawn wagons, and later with steam engines, which were banned until 1847. The line was closed as part of the Beeching cuts in 1965. The last actual train to run on the line was on 29 November that year, when an emergency service set forth to rescue stranded schoolchildren after their bus was stranded in a heavy snowfall (thanks h2g2). |
