LAST RUN OF THE DORNOCH RAILWAY
Full length video
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Title: LAST RUN OF THE DORNOCH RAILWAY
Reference number: 5418
Date: 1965c
Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]
Sound: mute
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 3.31 mins
Description:
Some footage from the last run of a steam train along the Dornoch Line. [Possibly incomplete?]
The Mound station closed in 1960, and for much of its working life acted as the junction to Dornoch station (also closed in 1960). It was on the Far North Line near the head of Loch Fleet in Scotland. The line remains open and the nearest station in use now is Golpsie.
Shotlist: gvs steam train at 'The Mound' station, where passengers change for Dornoch Line; gvs passengers on platform milling about (0.55) shot of photographer high on signal post (1.04) the driver of steam train talks to people from his carriage (1.34) trains arrival at Dornoch Station and subsequent departure, waved off by a crowd of people (3.13) the train arrives in Embo Station and brief shot of men moving a level crossing (3.31) [stops abruptly]