Last Working Steam in Skipton and the Giggleswick Shunter

A film made in showing the last working steam train in Skipton and the Giggleswick Shunter made by the late Ken Ellwood in 1965/66.

[@manisally]

A fabulous video in a fantastic location from a time sadly we will never see again a much better time than today.😄👍

[@marmion150]

Wonderful, thanks for sharing. Made me nostalgic not just for the traction, but for the days when a freight consignment could be sent anywhere. Wagonload traffic is still the bread and butter of so many systems, but was deliberately shed by BR.

[@levelcrossing150]

Another lovely quality film showing the ever so faithful black 5's and 9F's going about their duties.

[@michaelmiller641]

Wonderful! And such high quality!

[@simonfunwithtrains1572]

There's me thinking of you standing at the side of the road filming the crossing of the Ribble, but of course there was no settle bypass when this film was taken. lovely piece of local history.

[@MrGarb0]

Lovely to see Giggleswick the way it was.

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Incredible, not seen double headed diesel/steam so well caught 👍

[@stephensmith799]

Great images. Thanks. Black Fives are probably my favourites. Coleman managed to give them a look of both purpose and a certain kind of beauty

[@robertpearce2244]

Absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing ☺️👏

[@highdownmartin]

Funny to see a BR blue diesel with double arrows, double heading a grimy steam locomotive. The juxtaposition between the previous age and the age to come.

[@johnbrown9092]

Super film.

[@djburland]

Brilliant, black 5 and 9F working hard, loved at the time and never forgotten

[@michaelkaye9872]

Wow, fantastic footage, thank you for sharing

[@NickGarswood]

Another quality video. I spent many a happy hour at Skipton trainspotting in the early to mid 60's. It was the closest place to my home in Accrington where you could see ex. LNER locos. Plenty of Scots and Jubilees and Peak diesels, and if we were lucky, an A3!

[@Knappist]

Many thanks Peter for sharing this fantastic bit of archive footage 👍

[@highdownmartin]

This must be 16 mm. far too good to be eight millimetre surely? Lovely colours and great composition. Cracking stuff. thank you

[@nigelduckworth406]

Yet another brilliant film with perfect music for the period. If it's not Vaughan-Williams, it's very Williams-ish and evokes both the pastoral scene and the sad passing of steam. And what fantastically excellent filming, the like of which I have rarely seen in railway photography. I think that the precision of dentistry must have rubbed off.

[@Isochest]

Interesting to see mixed traction double headed freights

[@daleswildswim]

Superb Peter - Once again another fantastic bit of quality archive footage by your Dad. As time passes these become so much more important.

[@PeterEllwood]

Thank you. Some of the films I never saw so great to discover and share them now.

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[@1258-Eckhart]

That's a right sterling service digitising these time documents and putting them up to be seen. That 9F's in a sorry state, though and I didn't understand the need for the class 25 in double traction.

[@ShizukuSeiji]

Fantastic to see colour film of a full shunting operation. The wagons are quarried limestone I presume, sheeted to contain any dust blowing into the guard's face, plus some coal hoppers at the rear.

[@saltspringrailway3683]

For more steam shunting look up Market Weighton station and its demolition archive film

[@flippop101]

Fantastic images and reminiscences. Most grateful.

[@David330ify]

Great video by your dad, with a very sad ending.

[@keithashley6298]

Lovely and most poignant thanks for this.

[@bruceanderton1518]

Very nostalgic, nicely photographed, and I too think it must be 16mm, as the quality is so marked.

[@PeterEllwood]

All my Dad's cinefilms are 16mm mostly filmed with a Bolex H16.

[@garryferrington811]

Those big engines were used as shunters? This is a great (if sad) record.

[@amazoniaamazonia7225]

Excellent archive, I dread to think what the cost was to your father for the 16mm film.

[@rustynailer8655]

Fantastic quality, must have been a quality camera and film. Brilliant.

[@PeterEllwood]

Bolex H16 Cine & Kodak Film

[@walkingtheboogie]

Lovely video. Wonderful shots. I prefer it with the sound turned down so I can imagine the noises.

[@thomasm1964]

Lovely video. Many thanks for this.

[@MrSpamcan1]

fabulous video

[@jasperj1000]

Lovely !

[@rmlectronicsuk2410]

Peter, these films are outstanding. The quality of the film and placement of the subjects quite exceptional in my humble opinion. I’m no longer a videographer since the demise of “the video camera”; I’m not good with the new digital age! Was your Dad a professional film maker? The equipment used must have been of broadcast quality in the day. Thoroughly delightful films. Thank you for rescuing and sharing! Bob

[@PeterEllwood]

A dentist by profession but started using 16mm film in about 1953. Most of the Steam Loco films have only been viewed a few times when they were made and some shown at film shows to accompany talks to interested local groups. I know a few he considered poor as he'd got exposure wrong, but in the digitisation process, we have been able to makes some adjustments. He was always keen to document change whether on film or with his large format cameras. I'm always amazed at how he captured his subjects without us knowing. I guess we just got used to it! Thanks for your comment!

[@rmlectronicsuk2410]

Peter Ellwood Wonderful, and thank you for taking the time to reply. Sorry to ask but was he a dentist at Rawdon or Guiseley? I think a girl I was at Leeds College with was called Ellwood (but the grey matter is failing!) Her Dad was a Dentist and now you mentioned it some cogs are turning!

[@PeterEllwood]

@@rmlectronicsuk2410 Hi, no he was a Skipton dentist from 1953. He trained at Leeds Dental School and qualified in 1952/53. Mum trained as a nurse at Leeds but before she had the married name of Ellwood. So not the same Ellwood.

[@rmlectronicsuk2410]

Peter Ellwood Many Thanks. Didn’t intend to pry but the coincidence was too great not to ask! Never the less I am loving the series; a true gem. You deserve to be proud!

[@gainsbourg66]

Captures something very precious. This man could see the beauty that the public at the time were blind to.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

Hi Peter, thanks for putting these films up. I assume they were shot on 16mm and 8mm by the quality. May I ask where you got them digitized?

[@PeterEllwood]

www.images4life.com/cine-trans-1.html Link above. All films were 16mm using a Bolex H16. Dad never used 8mm. Thanks for the enquiry. I have had a few people wanting to know where they were digitised! Not cheap but that won't matter in a few years. YTV digitised most of them onto VHS tapes using multi million pound equipment but as you probably know VHS is low quality compared to the original film. The version I upload is also lower resolution than the actual best quality files MOV files which I cannot use on youtube.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

@@PeterEllwood Thanks for your reply. If you've looked at my channel you'll see some of my 8mm film digitize in America on a Lasergrasphics Scan Station to 2K. Great machine but I've been unable to find similar here. I'll check out the company you linked to. Have you tried smoothing the film in your edit program to get the hand shakes out of it. It's worked wonders on mine.

[@PeterEllwood]

@@GandyDancerProductions No, but I prefer them as they were shot. What's the name of your channel. I'll take a look.

[@GandyDancerProductions]

@@PeterEllwood Just click on the Gandy Dancer Productions by my little picture or click here: kzbin.info/door/jh7hMuNi7K74kui2_fABXw I have so BR films coming in the hear future.

[@percyengineproductions061]

what was the reasonn upon those steamers being hauled by diesels?

[@Basaljet]

Is that a class 7 enormous locomotive to be hauling shirt goods train

[@philnewton3096]

Who on earth put that awful music inthe way of history beauty of power community creativity ????

[@PeterEllwood]

I did, I take it you don't like the music. So just turn the sound off to see the film as it was filmed. Hopefully you like the film and appreciate that my dad filmed this stuff that many enthusiasts have enjoyed watching. I could of course have just left the film in the cannisters to eventually be lost for ever. I understand you don't like the music but welcome any suggestions.

[@donnicoll1570]

Thank you Peter for the video. It is great to see real TRAINS working. Has to have been a sad time for all who worked steam.

[@70029]

Another superb video, Peter, captured just in time. Very sad scene at the end with 45390 departing past the empty engine shed that was always active and often contained "foreign" engines to cop on my frequent visits in the earlier 1960's. I'm figuring that would be you, Peter, playing by the stream and watching the trains going over the bridge as your Dad was filming. Thanks so much for the memories.

[@shytalker]

yes i agree with your comments,a sad demise indeed i have spent many hours Spotting at that location, the scrap line by the Bridge had some interesting Engines for Scrap,in the 1950S wish i had a camera then.

[@JohnLaurencePedrick]

Amazingly good quality film - 16mm presumably?

[@PeterEllwood]

Yep, 16mm Bolex H16.

[@ianwarriner8193]

Another excellent film , with a perfect choice of music , thank you .

[@stephenkinsley2483]

walked under that river bridge near skipton a few times, a brilliant bit of film thank you.

[@PeterEllwood]

Thank you, a popular spot for filming before the Bypass.

[@ianspencer9837]

Is this Ken Elwood the model engineer of the West Cumbria society?

[@PeterEllwood]

No, but he was the 'flying dentist' from Skipton.