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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]