It's 1985 and a train leaves Gateshead, speeding west through gritty urban Tyneside before the greener terrain of rural Northumberland takes over to become the backdrop of the journey.
Train Journey From Gateshead To Hexham, o ur latest offering from the North East Film Archive (NEFA), takes us back 37 years. The amateur footage captured by schoolboy John Briggs was shot in time-lapse format and condenses the 45-minute train journey into six-and-a-half minutes.
You can watch the first two-and-a-half minutes here, and the full version on NEFA's website. The film was made to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Blaydon to Hexham section of the Tyne Valley Line.
