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VINTAGE RENFREWSHIRE TRANSPORT 1981-1983 mini-documentary, July 2021
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2021
- A short documentary film by Paul Russell, featuring live-sound 8mm film footage highlights from my final-day reel of the Houston to Kilmacolm Railway from 8th January 1983, and also my Renfrew Ferries movie from July 1981.
Yes, I remember travelling on the ferry... Sad that it isn't in the ownership of the transport museum in working order... It could have been making demonstration journeys to/from the museum.
You'll have a film of the other ferries across the Clyde...?
I can't remember the name of it but there was a wee passenger ferry (foot crossing that was the size of a large rowing boat, with a curved ‘roof’ that covered the middle section).
I do have silent footage of the replacement ferries in 1986, one of which I remember was called Yoker Swan (I can't remember the other one's name). That footage has as yet to be digitized but hopefully may appear here sometime in the not too distant future.
@Mac Jim and @Douglas Thomson.
That small ferry (if it was near Finniestoun, would have been the free ferry that operated between Finniestounn Quay and either Govan or the iron ore terminal upriver. I caught it a few times when I WAS DOING A FEW DAYS REPAIR WOrk ina ship docked at the iron ore terminal, I may be wrong, but Ithink it ran all night and was either free or very cheap.
Thank you Douglas thompson for your wonderfully shot film, and for your curation of these historical films.
BTW, the chain was for driving the boat, not merely for guiding it. It was connected to a sprocket inside the wonderful-sounding steam engine in the engine room, hence the clanking, huffing and puffing that hypnotised many a passenger.
The recipricating steam engine was a wonderful sight, one coould clearly see the piston-connecting rods moving as they were outside the clylinder. Many times adults would get out of their cars to gawp at the pistons and the shining brass and copper pipeworks clearly visable from a few feet away,