London’s Screen Archives enables Londoners see their past come alive on film. Managed by Film London, we are a unique network of historic film collections that cares for, collects and screens heritage film across the city. Together we preserve London’s rich film heritage from feature films to home movies, public information films, newsreels, and records of the capital’s many different industries.
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LTE in Steam
Steam trains trundle along several stretches of two outlying sections of the London Underground network in Essex and Buckinghamshire.
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Overview
Most of the London Underground was electrified by the early 1900s, but antique timber carriages on the furthest reaches of the Central line in the east and the Metropolitan line in the north-west were still hauled by steam locomotives well into the 1950s. Documenting the last days of steam on the network, this film captures British Transport Commission steam locomotives on both London Underground lines.
The trains journey through Blake Hall and North Weald stations on the Ongar branch of the Central line north of Epping in 1957, then through the hills of Buckinghamshire to Chalfont & Chesham on the Metropolitan line in 1961. The Epping Ongar Railway, a volunteer-run heritage railway in Essex, nowadays passes through the Blake Hall and North Weald stations. This film is from the collection of London Transport Museum, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.
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