"W.A.”Cam” Camwell was one of the most active members of the railway enthusiast community during the 1950s and 1960s - the period during which British Railways moved from steam to diesel and electric traction and many railway lines and branches passed into history.
His membership of the Stephenson Locomotive Society led him to organising many tours of threatened or interesting railway lines and he enthusiastically recorded as much of the railway network as possible, both in photographs and on 16mm cine film. The latter forms the basis of this wonderful series of programmes, as “Cam” filmed many remote and obscure lines as well as interesting developments on the main lines. The nostalgia level, for those of a certain age, is extremely high!
These films have a commentary for the main film (the Extras are silent), but no dubbed sound, so they represent the films as they would have been seen when "Cam" gave a Show to a Society.
