Catkins Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Not quite film or television but close - ish ... If you can tear your eyes away from Daisy then there are some nice railway themed shots in this: Oh and by the way, all the twin napier/double heading/pair of 37s etc type jokes have already been done. Thats a very good video, the record company have obviously spent a good amount of money on it. And the song's not bad either! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Chariots of Fire was on TV yesterday and made clever use of York Station - Bay platforms (Scarborough direction) to represent Kings Cross with what looked like Henry Oakley and Gresley stock, same platforms later used with Southern 4-4-0 and pullman coaches to represent London Victoria. I recal one of the railway mags telling how an 08 was pushing from behind whilst the FX steam hid the shunter from the camera lense. The outside of York, where the model museum bit is now, was used for external scenes in the closing frames. The opening scenes from The Cruel Sea were suppose to be set in Scotland at the builders ship yards, yet a GWR 1366 type saddle tank is shunting and a GWR wooden post signal controlling the entrance to Plymouth Millbay docks can be seen. Opening scenes of The Angry Silence and later scenes shows 40010 arriving and departing from a LMS style station believed to be Willesden Junction. 40010 was allocated to Watford in 1948 and moved to Willesden in 1960 so location would appear logical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iycjTNG7Q6Y&feature=related Lesser known one called Time Bomd aka Terror on a Train features an 8F hauled munitions train. Lots of early 50s yard freight yard scenes, even horse drawn delivery vehicles in the yard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiZ_rzLRzq4 Regards Mike Wiltshire 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 7, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 7, 2012 Not quite film or television but close - ish ... If you can tear your eyes away from Daisy then there are some nice railway themed shots in this: Oh and by the way, all the twin napier/double heading/pair of 37s etc type jokes have already been done. I know that the jokes have been done but I thought that the producers had gone to a great deal of trouble to find a singer who had curves to match those of a Deltic. Where was it filmed. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 There's always my alter ego.... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42dvj_some-mothers-do-ave-em-s1-4-1-part_fun OOooohh... ...Ffrrank Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 There's always my alter ego.... http://www.dailymoti...s1-4-1-part_fun OOooohh... ...Ffrrank Can you imagine getting clearance to do stunts like that now, the H&S bods would have apoplexy: real platform gaps, real rolling-stock, real live-rails .....it`d have to be CGI`d for sure! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Just wondering where the british dockyard scenes in the heroes of telemark where filmed? Brief glimpse of a saddle tank in there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 In those days men were, er, Frank.................... Best, Pete. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 (edited) Just wondering where the british dockyard scenes in the heroes of telemark where filmed? Brief glimpse of a saddle tank in there Poole Harbour, Dorset. Poole Quay,(Representing Norway), Hamworthy Quay (Representing England), Or it could have been the other way around ?. (l'll check in the morning, when l'm more sober). Either way,a matter of yards, between the two. Edited January 7, 2012 by Ceptic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Thanks I had a feeling they where the same place Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach bogie Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 A couple on television today. To see a GWR mogul at Marylebone see One of our Dinosaurs is Missing'. For Hymeks, Windsor Station (as covered before) in 1963 see Doctor in Distress. Towards the end of the film James Roberston Justice follows one of the female doctors who catches the train to London. One blast from the past in my Children's DVD collection. Gerry Anderson produced a puppet/live action mix show called The Secret Service. In Last Train to Bufflers Halt, two Triang Big Big Train locos are used, one yellow one blue for the 'live' action train scenes. Mike Wiltshire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Avalanche Express on Sky at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 For the EMU lover - There's a good shot of an unbelieveably clean Waterloo station in 1966 and a green 4 sub in 'Arabesque'... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Can you imagine getting clearance to do stunts like that now, the H&S bods would have apoplexy: real platform gaps, real rolling-stock, real live-rails .....it`d have to be CGI`d for sure! You'd be surprised! Look at that scene shot by shot and consider how you could stage it safely. Think no rails live, no way for the performer to slip under the train and how would you ensure that his foot couldn't get trapped between the train and the platform- which is probably the biggest hazard there? Remember that the sketch is filmed one shot at a time on a single camera so what you thought you saw you did not see. I know one sketch that involved the classic heroine tied to the track by the villain with a train approaching while the "hero" who was untrained and not a stunt double ran along the roof tops of the moving train, jumped into the cab and stopped the train with inches to spare. The heroine really was tied to the tracks, the hero really was running along the roofs, the train really was moving and the train really did stop very close to the heroine. Yet the whole stunt was filmed perfectly safely and there was no CGI. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) brief shot of a 2-6-4t leaving a station in hell drivers... 1:27:45 can just make out a station sign on the left, Ruislip?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u03zQAs_i_o Edited January 9, 2012 by michael delamar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) mersey docks and harbour board saddle tank under the Liverpool overhead railway Violent Playground 1958. 1hr 5mins in.... young Freddie Starr just prior to that on a pushbike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbVODkCH3k also 58 mins in, shots inside and outside of Liverpool central station Edited January 9, 2012 by michael delamar Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT3 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 There was a blink and you miss it EMU action in Sweeney2 when the boys run go accross an overbride chasing villans Superb continental action in the Great Escape The original day of the Triffids had a out of control train cash into a Terminus - IIRC filthy Black 5 Yes Minister - Jim Hacker goes to Scotland for an offical visit and byelections - Deltic and Mk1 sleeper action Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold unravelled Posted January 9, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2012 GWR saddletank 1925 appears in "The Chiltern Hendreds", 1949. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 A couple of my favourites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8MrVBMsBYQ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Does anyone happen to know where the very final scene of The Train was filmed (don't just say France!) Hoping someone can help Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Does anyone happen to know where the very final scene of The Train was filmed (don't just say France!) Hoping someone can help Ah,... 'Le Train', another one of my all time favourites. The making of, but with little reference to locations... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32C7g Also this site, with more location info', but with little more on the final scenes. It may provide a clue, tho'. http://www.railserve.com/trainmovies/ If l come across more info', l'll be back. Regards P.S. You may need an interpreter Edited January 10, 2012 by Ceptic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slilley Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Last night ( Monday 9 jan) Channel 4 had a programme about the Great Train Robbery. A number of clips from the Stanley baker film Roberry were included along with a lot of archive shots of the WCML at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Does anyone happen to know where the very final scene of The Train was filmed (don't just say France!) Hoping someone can help Hi Ceptic The station "Rive-Reine" where the staged accident etc were filmed was Acquigny south of Rouen on the former Pont de l'Arche- Dreux line. The final scenes were shot a few kilometre south of there between Acquigny and Heudreville but the area has become heavily wooded since The Train was filmed so the local area does look very different now. The section of the line between Louviers (which was St.Avold in the movie) and Heudreville was at that time a closed section between two stub ended goods only lines but the line through Acquigny reopened for a while until a couple of years ago to serve a large local paper mill and so far as I know is still intact. The line from south of the junction with the former Acquigny- Evreux branch (which still exists as far as the paper mill) has been lifted through Heudreville (now a private house with the goods shed a very large garden shed!) though most of it is a public footpath and the footbridge where Labiche was shot in the leg (to cover for a golfing accident to Burt Lancaster) and the girder bridge that you see the unmanned train rattling over before the crash are still in place. Track reappears at the next station south which is the northern end of the preserved CF Vallee de l'Eure based at Pacy though I don't think any of the filming took place that far down the line. One interesting thing about The Train was that it was set on the Est region but- apart from the early scenes in Paris- mostly filmed on the Ouest around Rouen. Yet the the locos used, four or five presumably withdrawn 1- 230Bs, were authentic Est machines that must have been brought over for the purpose. Unusual attention to accuracy for a film though the elderly 060 tender loco used for the staged derailment at Acquigny was a Ouest 030C. I wrote an article about the locations used for The Train for the SNCF Society Journal so PM me if you want a copy of the text. Edited January 11, 2012 by Pacific231G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 pics of the station at Acquigny from google earth site... http://www.panoramio.com/photo/30465545?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32C7g I enjoyed that! Exploding Signalbox; now, there`s a prototype for you! T`was interesting to see a Landy in use as a railmounted dolly-loco. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rew570 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) A couple of others, who'd of thought Jodie Foster would have been waiting for a train at Arley, known as Hambleton for the film Candleshoe. In the same film 4566 stars with a rake of GWR coaches as they chase the train to stop it on Waterworks crossing outside Hampton Loade. Nice shots of the train passing through Eardington and along the line. They had to see a painting on the train that was being shipped to London. The painting was of a ship called the Eclipse which held a clue to the whereabouts of the booty. In one of the Thunderbirds films, the IR boys live it up in a restaurant where the meals are delivered by Triang Jintys on flat wagons! Pre Wallace and Gromit. Oh there's that too ..... cracking. Andrew Edited January 13, 2012 by rew570 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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