Hodbarrow Side Tipper – Historic Film

In 2009 I posted on the blog a short film made in the late 1960s by Jon Marsh. Having checked back on this I realised it was no longer visible on the site so here it is again…

The film shows operations at Hodbarrow and features an iron side tipper in the train as well as one stored alongside the line. The grab wagon also appears to be based on the same underframe. It is worth absorbing the atmosphere of this film – it is exactly what I would like our own Colliery Railway to feel like – and we are now well on the way to getting that sensation!

Jon made extensive films of industrial railways through the 1960s and has made his film available through the B&R range as well as his own Industrial Railway DVDs – a Google search will soon bring you to the material and it forms a wide ranging and important archive. Jon also filmed the Lewin at work and this is of particular interest to those of us who have lived with the restoration project over the last six years! Our thanks to Jon for allowing us to use the film on this site.