Volume Ten Private Railways1961-63

In this volume of his now-legendary film record of the railways of Great Britain in the 1960s, IVO PETERS turns his attention to a number of private railways which had either avoided nationalisation in 1948 or had been created after that momentous event.

The programme starts with the pioneer of the railway preservation movement, the Bluebell Railway; in the period covered it was amassing the locomotives which are the envy of many of the railways to which it gave such a lead. In addition to the Bluebell itself, the well-remembered through trains to Horsted Keynes, with the LSWR T9, the Caledonian Single and the Great Northern tank 1247, are seen both on the Bluebell and on BR main lines.

A number of favourite industrial lines also appear, with their delightfully varied shunters. A true private railway is the Reverend Teddy Boston’s Cadeby Light Railway, and a major feature is the railway at the ironstone works at Kettering.

The Railways featured are:-

• The Bluebell Railway
• Bath Gas Works
• Port of Bristol Authority
• Wirksworth
• Buckminster Ironstone Quarries
• Exton Park
• The Cadeby Light Railway
• Ketting Iron & Coal Company