Railway footage in feature films and television...
Prompted by the timely mention over in the Dapol thread of the NBL Class 29 footage in 'Ring Of Bright Water', I thought it might be fun to see how many films and TV programmes we can recall with railways in them.... anything goes, home grown or foreign, ancient or bang up to date, whether it be a brief snatch of something passing by in the background or with the railway as a central feature.
I'll kick things off with one of my favourite examples....
'Bedazzled', the orignal feature film
In the film "The Halfway House", shown on Talking Pictures TV yesterday, there's a shot of GWR Mogul 6364 pulling into "Ynysgwyn", the station for "Cwmbach" village (filmed at East Anstey according to IMDB).
6364 has the GWR roundel on the tender and is hauling 3 or 4 coaches, the first of which is solid coloured (all brown?) and also shows the GWR roundel.
There's some odd-looking apparatus fixed to the tender's nearside, just behind the loco cab. I have no idea what it is.
The film