EddieB Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 And now watching These incredible men in their flying machines where the Jones Goods is pretending to be a French loco. Terry Thomas what a boundah! With one famous dusty enthusiast stowing away in the carriages during filming... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 4069 Posted December 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) According to IMDb the programme was filmed in Ireland, and the railway was the Downpatrick And County Down Railway, although I couldn't reconcile what I saw on screen with the pictures on the downrail website. Thanks. That explains the small continental industrial locomotive hauling a full-size clerestory carriage, at any rate! The 1979 film which attempted another explanation of the same events used 'Flying Scotsman' renumbered as several other Gresley pacifics, IIRC, which was slightly more convincing. Edited December 24, 2018 by 4069 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 The BBC/Netflix new animated version of Watership Down, shown over the past weekend, included a passable representation of a BR blue class 50 (mowing down some rabbits) as well as a train of blue/grey carriages. A class 50 might well have been appropriate to the Hampshire setting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold daveyb Posted December 26, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2018 (edited) I've trawled this thread and the most recent posts with interest, and I hope to avoid the repeats that crop up. The Netflix BBC production of The Bodyguard has a strong train and railway theme at the start. It's all very confusing with lots of library shots and various high speed sections before the whole train (hauled by a 47) ends up in some ecs yard where our hero deals with the suicide bomber. The trains were interesting as is the delectable Keeley Hawes but the rest of it was utter rubbish... The idea of a soldier with diagnosed PTSD ever getting to that post is ludicrous, as was his dealing with that suicide bomb situation. I should thank Netflix and the BBC for making both serious matters a laughing stock! Still the opening trains are interesting. It's on iPlayer and Netflix Edited December 26, 2018 by daveyb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
17A Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 I stumbled across this song a year or so ago and I'm hooked. I'm not 100% sure on the location with a bulleid Pacific and 5MT on shed. Oh boy I wouldn't be to happy to be in the inspection pit with a engine coming from behind. But a good song all the same. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted December 26, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2018 I've just watched The Grand Budapest Hotel. Does anyone know where the trains (just brief glimpses) were filmed? It looked like one of the Saxon narrow gauge lines, and given that many scenes were filmed in Görlitz and Dresden, that seems quite likely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Some very odd railway scenes in the 'ABC Murders' tonight. Poirot caught a train from London to Andover that ran through mountain scenery! His journey back was apparently on the LNER! Several other shots were difficult to place, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bimble Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Some very odd railway scenes in the 'ABC Murders' tonight. Poirot caught a train from London to Andover that ran through mountain scenery! His journey back was apparently on the LNER! Several other shots were difficult to place, too. Was that his trip back, or of Cust travelling to Bexhill (on the South Coast)...?? But with the tracks literally on the beach... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Boar Fell Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Was it me or was there a Thompson esque loco in one of the earlier scenes too. Think some of it may have been filmed on the NYMR, hence the appearance of the teaks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 27, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2018 Some very odd railway scenes in the 'ABC Murders' tonight. All CGI, I would assume. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 27, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2018 (edited) Bexhill station? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/West_Station%2C_16_Terminus_Road%2C_Bexhill.jpg/1200px-West_Station%2C_16_Terminus_Road%2C_Bexhill.jpg or https://goo.gl/maps/AHPZ7KR86j82 ? Keith Edited December 27, 2018 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 Andy, This site might help http://www.movie-locations.com/ steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 Ages ago I mentioned a Western making a brief appearance alongside Southall gasworks in 'The Sweeney' in 1975, nearest I can get to it is this hastily blagged screen grab of its Mk2 stock following behind. The episode in question is an absolute classic (amongst many) entitled 'Faces', which was filmed in February / March of '75 and broadcast on 8th September that year... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 (edited) Morecombe and Wise, the sign off scene of the televised show, Eric and Ernie would leave centre stage, as the stage curtains opened, revealing a back projection film shot of a Western diesel ( filmed from a low level camera in the four foot) would be heading at express speed directly towards the duo, the curtains would quickly slam shut to complete the scene Edited December 29, 2018 by Pandora Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Some very odd railway scenes in the 'ABC Murders' tonight. Poirot caught a train from London to Andover that ran through mountain scenery! His journey back was apparently on the LNER! Several other shots were difficult to place, too. There was a fair amount of railway content in the three episodes, some good, eg the train interior shots, and some distinctly not good, such as the little known LNER route between London and Andover mentioned above, and in last night's final part, trains racing headlong towards red signals which change to green just as they reach them, and even worse, just before a train passes at speed, points change to divert it away from the (*Spoiler Alert*) innocent patsy lying on the track ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted December 29, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2018 I started a thread about "The ABC Murders" with some screen grabs here: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/140795-locos-in-the-abc-murders/ CGI should allow more accurate depiction of the historical railways but in this case the designers seem to have done the exact opposite...! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Glad I did not watch this programe it seemed to be a travesty of a great story the origonal was a well crafted piece and followed the A C,S story,why do these idiots who call themselves writers have to muck around with great stories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 a film lastnight called shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins, i wasnt watching but was in the room at he time for a few minutes, a scene with a balck 5 pulling away from a station which i couldnt quite recognise, its from 1993 so all i could think of was bury bolton street Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHC Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 and not to forget that the Titfield Thunderbolt is on Wed 2nd Jan at 09:40 Beeb2 Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Gough Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 a film lastnight called shadowlands with Anthony Hopkins, i wasnt watching but was in the room at he time for a few minutes, a scene with a balck 5 pulling away from a station which i couldnt quite recognise, its from 1993 so all i could think of was bury bolton street Loughborough (GCR) masquerading as Oxford. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted December 30, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 30, 2018 Loughborough (GCR) masquerading as Oxford. It's ages since I saw this film, so I might be mis-remembering, but I recall noticing parked outside the station an orange Jaguar such as we normally associate with Inspector Morse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Morse's Jag was red and black ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetmorgan Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) If anyone gets Talking Pictures TV. Tonight 1st Jan, at 19:45...that's 7:45pm in english the BFI film Snow is on - A look at the efforts of British Railways in coping with the 1963 cold wave. Not sure if this is the same film as Snow drift at Bleath Gill Edited January 1, 2019 by jetmorgan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) If anyone gets Talking Pictures TV. Tonight at 19:45...that's 7:45pm in english the BFI film Snow is on - A look at the efforts of British Railways in coping with the 1963 cold wave. Not sure if this is the same film as Snow drift at Bleath Gill No it's a completely different flim, essentially some excellent filming from the 1963 freeze of pw gangs, snowploughs and a variety of trains, from loose coupled steam hauled coal trains to the Blue Pullman, augmented by archive shots from earlier winters. It is cut entirely without dialogue to a dramatic music track produced by Johnny Hawksworth and Daphne Oram (co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and a pioneer of electronic music) .There is an entirely proper emphasis on trains succesfully running at speed past lines of stranded trucks and cars on the roads. Sad to think that a couple of few years after BR staff were heroically keeping the whole network open as vital national arteries the government decided to close half of its services down. I've just watched it from youTube and did reconginse a few shots from the much earlier 1955 Snowdrift at Bleath Gill Both films are excellent and, if you don't want to wait for this evening, the BFI has posted both of them on YouTube Snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI Snowdrift at Bleath Gill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugIoMD495E Edited January 1, 2019 by Pacific231G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 After some mighty fine Sweeney action, I caught the final sequence of 1975's 'Brannigan,' featuring John Wayne, earlier. This looked like it was filmed in the East End, what is now Docklands, with an elevated railway and one scene inside what appeared to be a gantry-mounted signalbox. Wikipedia says it was shot in West India Quay, and also featured (a young) Tony Robinson, although I confess I didn't recognise the latter any better than the neglected dockside! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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