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Everything posted by jetmorgan
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Already posted these on a couple of Facebook groups I'm on but wanted to add them here too. Screen grabs from a short film on Talking Pics TV called Sound Steel, about the Sheffield steel frim of Firth Brown which featured this small industrial, very low cab loco hauling a Great Western bogie bolster loaded with some sort of boiler. According to a member of the Industrial loco group on facebook it's a Hawthorn Leslie 3913. There were some later shots of Bullied pacifics as well which I have yet to sort out.
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I know someone posted a couple of pictures from the film Last Journey. But it was on again the other day and I got it recorded so got a huge load of screenshots. Too many to post up here in one go so here is a selection, Star class at Paddington, a few views of what I think is Royal Oak, Pannier tanks...including a condenser and some views of a train passing what looks like an engine shed and also going through what looks like some docks, but I don't know the location so perhaps someone could help out.
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Dr Terrors House of Horrors on Talking Pics TV right now and the opening scenes are at Paddington with 6995 Benthall Hall. Alongside stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee (it wouldn't be a horror film without those two) A very very young looking Donald Sutherland, Roy Castle(of Record Breakers fame), Bernard Lee and a host of other very familiar faces. Good GOD!!! it even has Alan Fluff Freeman in it
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Also John and Julie with just a couple of scenes of a Bulleid pacific at Southampton docks, A station looking like it's from the West of England main line, then a Gresley product which suddenly turns into a BR/GWR 4-6-0! When will film producers realise that their stock railway footage will be investigated in such detail 65 odd years after the event we'd all live much happier lives....
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Another old film I've taken screen shots from. The Key starring William Holden, Sophia Loren & Trevor Howard along with some other regular, well known minor actors. Set in 1941, but filmed in 1958, a story about the tugs that used to rescue merchant ships that had been attacked by the Germans. Only a couple of railway scenes, the first at the port (I don't know which port this is or supposed to be...assuming it's down south west England way). You can just make out a small saddle tank with some wagons on the quay side. Then right at the end of the film is a train leaving a station. Again I don't know what station it is but it has that GWR train shed look about it. But the engine is easy to identify as you can just make out the nameplate for the now preserved Rood Ahston Hall. Additionally , to anyone modellers interested there are lots of shots of these tugs including the single 2pdr pom pom gun and what is supposed to be a French submarine that has been conscripted by the Germans for training....it's said it doesn't have any torpedo tubes but it obviously does. I suspect that for filming purposes it was actually a British submarine.
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Still railways but something a little different this morning. From the film A Window in London starring Michael Redgrave, some London underground trains in 1940. Not sure of the locations but I think west London. Also the film is supposed to have some good shots of Waterloo Bridge being built, Michael Redgrave starring as a crane driver on the construction site.
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Here comes some more screen shots Sony classic movies this time. I have quite a few as I wasn't doing much over lockdown so did a lot of recording, but I have only just been able to get some blank DVD's so I can get the screen shots. This time "Weekend with Lulu" starring Bob Monkhouse, Leslie Phillips, Irene Handl and Shirley Eaton...of Goldfinger fame. Another film shot on the Longmoor Military railway....standing in for railways in France. The J94 and all the British looking rolling stock a bit of a give away but there some shots of a French railway signal box. But the goods yard is very much British and I think the water crane in the middle of the goods yard is there for comic effect purposes only. For aeroplane enthusiasts there are also a good number of shots of the Silver City based Bristol Freighters that flew cars between Le Touquet and Lydd
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Some more screen shots of films on Talking Pics TV. This tiome one of the short home movie style films featuring industry in Lancashire. I'm assuming this must be the Beyer Peacock works considering the American style locomotive and the Garratts. The film also had other images of a transporter bridge along with some Avro aircraft but they are outside the subject of this forum.
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Another Talking pic TV film shown over the past year was "The 14 aka the wild little bunch" some sort of scoail commentary film on life for a poor family in the 1970's. However there are a lot of scenes, especially in the opening credits of the lines out of Paddington, I think around the Westbourne park and Royal Oak areas. On the downside a lot of the scenes feature young kids trespassing on the railway which can't create the best of images these days.
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Some screen shots from Runaway Railway off Talking pics TV. All filmed on the LMR by the look of things except some stock footage at Paddington and a couple of short scenes which I think were lifted from the London to Brighton in 4 minutes film. The WD 2-10-0 doesn't need any introduction as it's a well know engine. The saddle tank I presume is a J94 but with fake outside cylinders fitted and some sort of decorative thingy on the chimney. Also includes some Hornby Dublo as well.
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Another Talking Pics TV film on a while ago "The Proud Valley" starring Paul Robeson set in a mining town in south Wales. Opening scenes have a small prairie on a coal train and Paul Robeson hitching a lift. There are also a couple of scenes of an industrial saddle tank at the coal mine a studio scene of the pit head and coal tubs. A bit of inspiration for coal pit modellers
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A number of proper screen shots from the Will Hay film, The Black Sheep of Whitehall. The first look like Paddington and are probably just stock shots, Southern 4-4-0 (not sure of the class) leaving what I think might be Victoria. I'm sure I have seen this shot somewhere else so again it could be just stock footage. The engine then turns into something LMS style, then something that looks a little bit Eastern, not a very detailed shot as it was a matter of a second or 2 on the screen. Then things go Great Western when the train finally arrives at it's destination. Then later in the film there is a car chase with the good guys, Will Hay and John Mills towing an invalid chair and getting it stuck on a level crossing, un-kown location although someone might be able to ID it. An approaching southern train threatens to squash the man flat. Lastly in the car chase there is a scene with a load of cyclists going past what looks like a wooden platform of a halt somewhere but again an un-known location.
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I'm currently in a build and restoration of some Ian Kirk Maunsell coach kits, the corridor thirds and 6 compartment brakes. The restorations were a Ebay purchase that were already built but in need of pulling apart, cleaning up and putting back together. I'm now getting towards rebuilding and I want to start painting the interiors but I don;t know what colours to use for the seats. I will be repainting all coaches, 8 of them including a Bulleid in the carmine & cream early BR livery. So what colours should I be using for the seat upholstery?