Filmed: 19th June 2021

With the assistance of Brian Pearce (Railworld Wildlife Haven), we had a great vantage point from which to see the Flying Scotsman as she arrived into Peterborough Train Station on Celebrate the Fens Day.

The plan was to film the famous locomotive as it came by and then move to Railworld to finish the remainder of film. Unfortunately we encountered technical difficulties early in the shoot once we got to Railworld so filming had to be aborted.

Upon investigation, when opening the camera casing (in less than complete darkness) we found ‘film spaghetti’ inside as it had jammed in the mechanism after passing through the gate. Convinced we’d failed to capture or lost that section of film, we manually wound it onto the take-up spool ahead of re-testing the camera.

Following the 2nd test (which was successful), we had the film developed and scanned – imagine our surprise when we saw that not only had we captured the Flying Scotsman but the footage had survived and was almost completely intact!

Camera Operator: Drew Berry
Camera: Krasnogorsk-3
Film Stock: Kodak Vision3 250D
Film Transfer: On8Mil
Film Grading: Rudolf Griva