Age Of Steam - Barnard Castle to Bowes Railway 1964

This short, believed to be a commercial Standard 8mm film, features steam trains running through a snow covered Teesdale. A handwritten note on the film container describes this as the Barnard Castle to Bowes Railway. The film is believed to be from 1964 as there is a notice featured in the film relating to the Withdrawal of Rail Services dated 30 November 1964. No information can be found on Meteor Film Services who distributed the film. Please contact if you have information on the film maker or Meteor Films. Film provided by Hazel Flinn.
ABP restore, preserve and archive images of Teesdale captured on film by amateur filmmakers on home movie or video. Such footage can often contains scenes of day-to-day life and activities that have changed during the intervening years. It may also contain images of buildings long since demolished and collectively form a visual historical record of the past which, if not properly preserved is in danger of being lost.
(Originally Added: Aug 17, 2009; Views: 4,102)

[@thomasburke2683]

Lovely filming, evoking an era now sadly gone

[@ColinH1973]

Barnard Castle station and the line should never have been closed.

[@BegudMaximan-zp2tc]

Exactly. Mothball it until ready for upgrade, and then reinstate for future use. But money talks, short sighted attitudes often prevail.😢

[@robmasterman]

Excellent material...Thanks for sharing...Bob

[@North-East-Steam]

Beautiful footage, thanks for sharing.

[@5705Seahorse]

A little gem! The pick up goods doesn't seem to be generating much business with just the odd wagon added and sadly would seem to make little commercial sense.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

5705Seahorse in most locations you wouldn't get much traffic for pick-up goods trains, but they had to be run as timetabled even if there was no paying traffic. BR's Speedlink service had the same problem. It was the local trip workings that cost more than the they earned.

[@barryjones93]

Bowes station closed in January 1962 - the line that closed in November 1964 was the Middleton-in-Teesdale line, so the film must have bits from two periods spliced together - The Ivatt 2-6-0 from January 1962 or earlier (1961/62 was a very snowy winter, I seem to recall, having just managed a trip over the line in late 1961 before snow closed it) and the DMU from 1964 (is that Middleton station in the film?).

[@greekrailways2681]

yh

[@ronaldpollard9098]

What is the music?

[@thomasoates3003]

The music is from Pennine Steam in the 60s Volume 1.

[@GrrMeister]

*Boots Of Spanish Leather*

[@makennabowes9691]

don't you think its wierd that my ancestors built this lol