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Title: INTO STEAM AGAIN

Reference number: 8495

Date: 2003

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.16 mins

Description: This amateur film celebrates steam railways and trains by compiling a montage of stills, transfers from slides and cine footage, cut-outs and occasional moving images (both model and life-sized).

Shotlist: [shotlisted from timecoded VHS, manual control track]

Cut with the title 'INTO STEAM AGAIN' throughout, this amateur film celebrates steam railways and trains by compiling a montage of stills, cut-outs and occasional moving image featuring steam locomotives (both life-sized and models)

Handwritten notes found in original can offer an indication of content as follows:
(0.00) "Duchess of Hamilton; GWR bursting from tunnel; Fair weather or foul - G'house double headed on Devon's lines; Pacific bears famous name Ike; PNR LNER B12; mix:Title; Railways great and small; - model day / night in imagination steam kept going; Trains to thrill; Coal traffic (Ind. Scot); Glen; Jones Goods Highland Railway; Maud NBR; Stirling race to North; 4472 [copy footage] NER - 1870s; mix graphic; Stratford & Midland Junction RLY; South coast and Chatham railway; North Staffordshire rly; Montage of pre-grouping; GWR; Duchess Day / Night; Truro; College; Union of South Africa stirring at 5am for special; Last B60 to work (Seafield Coll); Pullman SR moguls; Tank moguls - River Class; GWR - goods; SRPS; Larbert NB; SRPS; Coronation at Joppa; U/SA [Union of South Africa]; D/Head black five 9 Stephenson & Maud effects; Heatherslaw light narrow gauge railway; PS Waverley P ttrain; GWR broad gauge print train; collage" (13.39) In the years since the end of steam on Britain's main rail network, total mileage has shrunk. Over the same years private steam mileage has grown to become a national attraction. Steam rail modelling is now a major leisure pursuit throughout Britain. Steam rail models up to 195? command very high value. Collectors pay thousands of pounds for a single locomotive subject to type and make. JJ Films. The End (14.16)