Just discovered this great wee video on the NLS Scottish Screen Archive website.
Lots of interesting stuff on show including 'Cock O' the North', 'Silver King', 'Spearmint', J36 'Ole Bill' coupled to what looks like an ex NE tender?, O4/3 6290, an ex MSLR camping coach, railcar 'Retaliator', interior shots of a Tourist Buffet Car and Tourist 3rd Open and loads more
I tought the clerestory coach at 1:10 looked like it might be Midland in origin and the tablecloths visible through the windows seem to point to it being a catering vehicle of some sort. 51L/Chowbent do Midland stock that is suitable for some of the ex Midland & NB joint stock that was passed to the LNER in 1928 but no dining cars though.
I think the footage of No. 9 at Crail is the loco about to be removed from BR metals and taken to the nearby Lochty Private Railway set up by John Cameron
The footage of the 'Plasser Duo-matic' track-laying machine at the end was shot between Sinclairtown and Dysart stations. The footbridge over the line was constructed by the LNER around 1932 to link Viewforth Gardens and Lady Nairn Avenue. I use it most days on my way to work
Hi Folks The tender on the J36 is a normal one for these engines, though some had plated coal rails and some also plating that extended above the coal rail. "Maude" in her preserved state has a tender with open coal rails but in BR days she had the extended plating style. In the views of the "Union" at Crail, being handed over to John Cameron, [who by the may looks as happy as a dog with two tails], the BR driver without the reefer jacket and wearing white shirt and tie, is George -Geordie- Jackson, along time driver at Thornton, and one I knew well. A really interesting video, thanks.
Steve.
