Two Glens to Fort William

ID: NRM_FILM_005 DESCRIPTION: This film is from the John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse Collection which is in the care of the National Railway Museum in York. Further details of the collection can be found at the end of this description. This is a silent film; there is no audio. The film features two North British 4-4-0 "Glen" Class locomotives, 62496 "Glen Loy" and 62471 "Glen Falloch", on the early morning train from Glasgow Queen Street to Fort William. The train included the overnight sleeper from London Euston. This was broadcast on 8 December 1959. Adams & Whitehouse: In 1980 the National Railway Museum purchased from John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse a collection of some 100 short films which document British Railways in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were originally broadcast on BBC Children's Television under the title "Railway Roundabout". The first "Railway Roundabout" was broadcast on the BBC's Children's Hour on 22 April 1958. Each programme was broadcast live from a studio in Birmingham with John and Pat providing the accompanying voiceovers to the films. The series ran for just over four years with the final programme being transmitted on the 12 September 1962. Filming usually took place in July and August of each year and there were no broadcasts during these months. "Railway Roundabout" was broadcast during one of the most interesting periods of British Railways. The first series began just three years after the British Rail Modernisation Plan of 1955 and ended a year before the infamous Beeching Report. CREATOR (AV): John Adams and Patrick Whitehouse DATE OF RECORDING: 1959 PERIOD: 1950s SOURCE: National Railway Museum, York COLLECTION: Adams & Whitehouse films for Railway Roundabout Asset ID: 2498 KEYWORDS: