- Title:
- 8mm Footage 'Rainhill 150, trams and trains in England, Scotland, Wales, Amsterdam, France, Italy and Switzerland'
- Object name(s):
- 8 mm film; 8 mm film
- Brief description:
- Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. 150th anniversary of the Rainhill trials on 25th May 1980; spectators’ area; locomotives exhibited during the cavalcade. Midland Railway 4-2-2 No.673; LNWR Saddle tank; LNWR No.790 Hardwick with two coaches; NBR No.673 B Maude with coach; Midland Railway No.1000 with dinning carriage; LMS 0-6-0 No.4027 with coach; LMS Black Five No.5000 followed by a replica of Novelty hauled on a Well wagon; National Coal Board (Bold Colliery) Austerity No.7 Robert; LMS Ivatt Class 4 No.43106 with coach; LMS Jubilee Class No.5690 Leander with coach and buffet car; LNER V2 Class No.4771 Green Arrow with coach and buffet car; LNER A3 No. 4772 Flying Scotsman; LNER A4 Pacific No.4498 Sir Nigel Gresley; SR Merchant Navy Class 35028 Clan Line fitted with Golden Arrow headboard and coaches; LMS Princess Coronation Class No.46229 Duchess of Hamilton with coaches; BR Standard Class 4 tank 2-6-4T No.80079; BR Standard Class 9F No.92220 Evening Star; diesel-hydraulic British Rail Class 52 D1062 Western Courier; a yellow track machine; diesel Class 25/3 No.25296 hauling a 10 Ton car transporter and further diesel hauling freight; diesel-electric Class 47 No.47581 Great Eastern; Deltic No.55015 (D9015) Tulyar hauling two electrics, Class 86/2 No.86214 Sans Pareil and Class 76 EM1 No.26020; HST train (High Speed Train); an Intercity APT train (Advanced Passenger Train); working replica of Rocket with coach; working replica of Sans Pareil with coach; Lion with a yellow first class carriage of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway; LMS Princess Coronation Class No.46229 Duchess of Hamilton followed by the Novelty replica on a Well wagon; S&DJR 7F 2-8-0 No.13809 (now 53809) with coaches; Midland Railway No.1000 with coach; LNWR 0-6-2 coal tank No.1054 with coaches; LNWR No.790 Hardwick; Midland Railway 4-2-2 No.673. Heaton Park Tramway; tram No.765; Crich tramway village; Blackpool double-decker trams; Glasgow double-decker tram, No. 1797; Amsterdam Trams; Switzerland, Italy and France; metre-gauge railway managed by the Swiss FART (Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi), Locarno to Domodossola line. Oberalp BVZ trains (Brig-Visp-Zermatt-Bahn) around Brig and Furka in Switzerland; SMC funicular between Sierre and Crans-Montana.; Martigny–Orsières railway; Sembrancher Junction station; Gornergrat railway to Zermatt, near the summit of the Gornergrat; Zurich; Ffestiniog railway; Far North line; International Garden Festival in Liverpool, with its miniature steam railway; Great Central Railway at Rothley; locomotives: Robert Nelson No.4 and GCR Class 11F No. 506 Butler Henderson.
- Collection:
- Science Museum Group
- Associated concept:
- 8 mm film
- Credit line:
- Mavis Dagmar Green
- Material:
- acetate
- Material:
- plastic (unidentified)
- Material:
- cardboard
- Object name:
- 8 mm film; 8 mm film
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1980
- Date - latest:
- 1985
- Object production date:
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1980
- Date - latest:
- 1985
- Object production person:
- Green, Michael
- Object production place:
- United Kingdom; France; Switzerland; Italy; Croatia; Spain; Europe
- Other number:
- 2021-1599/8
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Other number:
- GRE/1/8
- Other number type:
- Adlib Reference number
- Responsible department/section:
- NRM - Moving Images
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ffb14f1f-63e2-3511-9a36-3eb424c6e0a1, Science Museum Group, CC BY
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