**NOTE**: This is a reupload of a previous program. The original starting section of this tape was found and has been added to the beginning of the program.
The last documented footage of the Thurso & Nation Valley Railway in operation, approximately 6 months after line closure in 1986. Colin Churcher provides the following information regarding the trip:
"It was a Saturday in January or February 1987. Joe Toscas, Neil Robertson (with the yellow hard hat) and I were working in car 27 at Thurso when the Superintendent Gaetan Lafleur asked us if we would like to go on a final ride on the Thurso Railway which had closed the previous summer. We assembled 70 ton locomotive No. 12, a flatcar and car 27 and took off up the hill away from Thurso. We had a run past on the curve at the top of the hill and another on a road crossing where the engineer, Gaetan's son, blew an impressive rule 14l crossing signal. Shortly after that the locomotive front truck derailed on ice build up. It was out with the rerailing ramps and it took some time to get the locomotive back on the rails. We then returned to Thurso where I videoed No. 12 being put into the shop and the doors closing on the railway."
I thank Colin Churcher again for providing this footage to be uploaded onto KZread.
For more information and history on the TNVR, please visit Colin's website: churcher.crcml.org/thurso/tnv...