North East Steam - The Woodburn branch

8mm cine film which I shot in 1966 on the Woodburn branch in Northumberland.
Starting with an unplanned brake van trip from Scotsgap to Woodburn and back on the 4th of January at the invitation of the guard, the twice weekly pickup goods from the lineside in mid summer and finally shots of the Wansbeck Piper special train on 2nd October.
The video is complete with an authentic soundtrack.

[@nigelterry9299]

That J27 just sets up the whole thing from the start. Wonderfully off beat!!!

[@rodsmith3911]

The best part of the railway system was the country branch line. Sadly lost forever the sounds of a loose coupled goods as it went about its daily work, shunting each wayside goods depot on the way. Lots of great memories in this lovely video.

[@tonyday7233]

Lovely.

[@kuhlemeier]

Surely the best to date quality footage of the Wanny Line.

[@toolmaker9411]

What a gem. Thank you.

[@RaisedOnSteam]

if only all vintage footage could be like this without someone talking over it!

[@philipeldridge7346]

Thank you!

[@larx4074]

Fabulous!! Well edited and many thanks for sharing.

[@HoggRyan]

Cracking footage!

[@dodgy1954]

Fantastic filming (a real treat). Hard to believe that it is as 'recent' as 1966.

[@jonathanhall7815]

Great video, I would love to see this line reopened.

[@stewartmarshall5853]

Nice to see the guard using his shunting pole knocking wagons off and loose shunting, something that was an everyday occurrence on bread and butter trip jobs not every train was on the mainline pulling express trains ,

[@jimbaker1767]

Thank you so much for that upload. I live just a short walk from Woodburn station, and have walked sections of that line on many occasions. The film is from my year of birth, and it's so special that we can see how it looked then. Thanks for preserving that.

[@AllenORourke1954]

Wonderful footage, just looked up the J27 on BRDatabase, a tired old engine with a service life of 59 years, scrapped in 1967.

[@ianmackie1526]

Lovely footage, loved the detonators on the line right at the end!

[@tulyar1043]

Many thanks for posting this video, especially it shows the track layout at the Morpeth end of Scotsgap Junction. Will you be posting anymore videos like this please?

[@PeterHutchinson-jc6wv]

Hi, Yes I have more footage to post but it needs some work first.