TJ52 Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 I think it's on again Wednesday 1st November. Terry 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted October 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2023 If you have a Smart TV you can press the Red Button ('Encore' at top-right of screen) and access the channel's Catch-Up Player. Loads of different content available i.e. films, documentaries, TV shows etc. (Who remembers 'The Flockton Flyer and Runaround? 😊). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted October 23, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) There was a film on a week or two back on one of the film channels called "The Quiet Man" It stars John Wayne as a retired boxer going back to his roots in Ireland. (It's all filmed in Ireland) It may have been mentioned before but there is some nice Irish steam train nostalgia: https://railwaymoviedatabase.com/the-quiet-man/ Edited October 23, 2023 by melmerby 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted October 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2023 All four episodes of the excellent BBC adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers' 'Five Red Herrings' feature extensive scenes of Caley blue Fairburn tank No.2085 in action on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 if you like French Railways there is a 1946 movie, just appeared on Talking Pictures Encore called Bataille du Rail/Battle of the Rails (UK title) featuring French steam and electric throughout. Link here but you may need to register (free) to view. https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/Video/Battle-of-the-Rails?id=e8ae64a6-78a0-4f8c-b24a-4cbaa5511df9 Mike Wiltshire 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Already posted on page 66 by Pacific231G! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 I was watching Carry On Constable not so long ago and wondered if anyone knew the location of the bit where Constable Constable was trying to chat up Policewoman Passworthy and she walked up some steps to a footbridge and he carried on along the pavement and still talking to her? I am assuming there was a railway behind but couldn't see any clues, probably would be somewhere near the studios as well. I have to put in a long footbridge down to a road on my new TT120 layout and thought it would be nice to recreate this scene! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BachelorBoy Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Hobby said: I was watching Carry On Constable not so long ago and wondered if anyone knew the location of the bit where Constable Constable was trying to chat up Policewoman Passworthy and she walked up some steps to a footbridge and he carried on along the pavement and still talking to her? I am assuming there was a railway behind but couldn't see any clues, probably would be somewhere near the studios as well. I have to put in a long footbridge down to a road on my new TT120 layout and thought it would be nice to recreate this scene! It might be South Ealing tube station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 3, 2023 (edited) @Hobby It's in West Ealing. https://www.reelstreets.com/films/carry-on-constable/ EDIT: had a chance to read the page now. (Quote): The scene where P.C. Charlie Constable (Kenneth Connor) and W.P.C. Gloria Passworthy (Joan Sims) walk along the road and JS goes up some steps as KC proclaims his love for her was filmed at the west end of Manor Road, opposite the corner store. The steps led up to a footbridge over the railway (known locally as Jacob’s Ladder). The nearest span to Manor Road was removed to build a warehouse and there is now a footpath to the bridge. Sorry but I now live some distance away and don’t have a recent photo. This is a link to Google Maps – https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.513772,-0.325762,180m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en Edited November 3, 2023 by keefer 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted November 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 3, 2023 From the 1956 OS 1:1250 map: https://maps.nls.uk/view/102894967 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublodad Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 (edited) Misspent many of my teenage years on that footbridge. Edited November 3, 2023 by Dublodad 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Iirc that footbridge also featured in the opening titles of Citizen Smith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 13 hours ago, Hobby said: Already posted on page 66 by Pacific231G! I missed it. I only had the email from Talking Pictures on Thursday. Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Worth noting that The Train is available again on BBC iPlayer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000f1v9/the-train 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted November 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2023 This episode of The Saint features an extensive chase/gunfight sequence shot on the ECML at Hitchin, with lots of lovely departmental stock on view. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted November 12, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 12, 2023 54 minutes ago, papagolfjuliet said: This episode of The Saint features an extensive chase/gunfight sequence shot on the ECML at Hitchin, with lots of lovely departmental stock on view. Hitchin Civil Engineer's yard, south of Hitchin station. My grandfather had an allotment overlooking it in the early '50s and I enjoyed going there to 'help' pick vegetables while watching the steam cranes in the yard and the occasional passing train. Later I used to spot off the bridge at the Down end. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Started watching "Platform 7", a psychological thriller which opens with several scenes at Keighley Station, so far we have had a 20 on an engineering train, a 50 on a set of Mk3s and a pacer. Jim 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 15 hours ago, luckymucklebackit said: Started watching "Platform 7", a psychological thriller which opens with several scenes at Keighley Station, so far we have had a 20 on an engineering train, a 50 on a set of Mk3s and a pacer. Jim I remember it being filmed. What channel is it on please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 2 hours ago, Ben B said: I remember it being filmed. What channel is it on please? I started watching it on ITVX https://www.itv.com/watch/platform-7/10a2973/10a2973a0001 Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 James May (ex Top Gear) has a nice gentle series on Amazon Prime - "Our Man In India". What made episode 2 relevant to RMWeb is his trip on the "Maharaj Express". Just after a tour of the biggest cricket bat and ball factory in the world. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0CNL3ZJM4/ It's an Indian version of the Orient Express (Agatha Christie does get a mention) I lost count of the number of coaches at 21. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittenDormer Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Apologies if it has already been mentioned, and I know this is a high-art discussion, but the Black Lace video to 'Do The Conga' was filmed around Keighley on old buses and the railway in what appears to be in part a tribute to On The Buses. Here is a link. Enjoy the earworm. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 Not a film or TV series but this is great - George Fame does a spot of overtime as a Signalman in 1968... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 (edited) The 1954 film "Human Desire" starring Glenn Ford has plenty of US train action as Ford plays an Engineer on the fictional "Central National" railroad The continuity isn't brilliand but a fair bit of period railroad action. e.g. A Santa Fe Streamliner pulls into Albuquerque and Glenn Ford steps from the cab, of a completely different type of loco.☹️ https://obscuretrainmovies.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/human-desire-1954/ (Based on "La Bête humaine" by Emile Zola) Edited January 13 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 12 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: Not a film or TV series but this is great - George Fame does a spot of overtime as a Signalman in 1968... Filmed on OBB by the look of it, as Stadlau is near to Vienna. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted January 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13 Double headed blue Warships at 17' 20" in this newly-uploaded episode of 'Hadleigh.' 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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