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Film: British Railways Class 306 Train Memories

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Hello everyone, this might be of interest.

Simon

Silent Super 8 cinė film plus many still images (110 and 35mm film) showing LNER designed Class 306 trains, plus also some views of the near identical Class 506 trains which ran on a line in Manchester.

Especially during the first four minutes there is much information (in caption form).

Footage also includes many views inside the trains - especially near the end of the film. Also seen are some other sliding door trains from that era (LPTB, LMS) and even the former third rail Tyneside Electrics get a mention!

Much of what I filmed was solely for my own memories - the electronic mass communications and film sharing we have nowadays had not been invented in the late 1970's and early 1980's!

 
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Marvellous stuff thanks. One or two familiar faces there.

When no smoking was introduced, the middle pantograph car and half the adjacent trailer were left as smoking, while the motor coach and the front of the driving trailer were non-smoking, so the door that divided the driving trailer in half had some use.
 
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