Rugd1022

He Was A Friend Of Mine - The Byrds

It's the Coatbridge - DIRFT - Coatbridge circuit, it usually arrives at Daventry at 06.50 with a Crewe man (or woman) who stays with the locos in the north end shunt neck while the wagons are stripped and reloaded in the Russells terminal, they then take the loaded train back north at 12.18.

Yesterday's Papers - The Rolling Stones

Peak Forest and Leamington Spa spring to mind.

Not all double heading is due to the loadings Matt, sometimes it's just a case of attaching another loco for all or part of a journey to save a light engine path if a loco is needed eslewhere. It still happens now, most weeks.

Yes it is Ian, the same model as the one in the 'Department S' shot I posted last week

Morning Dew - Quicksilver Messenger Service

Lazy Sunday - The Small Faces... ''Gaw blimey hello Mrs.Jones, how's your Bert's lumbago...?''

He had some of the best lines in the film... ''last night, Mr.Governor, my toilet was broken into...''. It has its flaws but it's still a cracking film and raises a smile, a proper '60s caper movie and no mistake.

Things that make you …? This, every time I watch it or hear Quincy Jones' soundtrack...

Ballad of Easy Rider - The Byrds

Evening all, I was about to post this on another forum when it suddenly struck me - this was filmed fifty years ago...!!

Why Don't We Do It In The Road - throwaway White Album Fabs ditty...

Say Goodbye To Love - The Carpenters

Personally I'm convinced the colour light signal in 'Robbery' was a mock up, you can see it wobbling a bit when the gang member climbs onto the platform to tamper with the signal aspect! As far as I'm aware there were no colour lights on the Mkt. Harborough / Peterborough line. The only thing about the film which goes against the grain (particularly in relation to this thread's title) is that some of the promotional artwork featured an American train!

Going further back than 'Buster' is 'Robbery', a much better attempt and well known to many on here of course, based on the real train robbery of August '63 it's very accurate as far as the crime itself goes. Shot in early '67 by Stanley Baker's Oakhurst Production company, BR offered them the use of the closed Rugby to Market Harborough and Peterborough line for the main robbery sequence (close to Theddingworth station) and the Northampton to Market Harborough line (still open at the time) for the scene shot in the signalbox. D218 and a full rake of maroon stock was provided for the two week shoot, the loco was kept on Rugby shed during the day while the stock was berthed on the Northampton - Market Harborough line when not required, these were worked by crews from Rugby, Northampton and Stonebridge Park depots. The scenes showing the mail train departing 'Glasgow' were shot at Marylebone and near the start of the film Stanley Baker and Joanna Petit are shown at the entrance to Victoria station. A very young Robert Powell played the part of the secondman on D318 and when the wardrobe department gave him a uniform it was much too large, so Rugby fireman John Atkinson lent him his instead. The Market Harborough lines were only double track but it would have been very difficult for BR to allow the robbery scenes to be shot at the real location between Cheddington and Leighton Buzzard, or indeed any other four track section, but the production company did a fantastic job with what they were given at the time. When the film crew arrived at Theddingworth to start shooting they had to mop and polish the top of the rails as nothing had run over the line since it closed in June the previous year. Stanley Baker had wanted to make the film as early as 1964, as it turned out they chose the right time and place to do it and had he left it another few years the same facilities would probably have not been available to him.

Marylebone, March 1964...

In those days standing in an open doorway was ok when riding on a moving vehicle..... holding on with one hand... giving handsignals with the other...!

Some nights when shunting the newspaper stock in and out of Padd on 'A' Pilot the consist was so long that we'd have as many shunters as possible riding on the stock conveying the rear most shunter's hand signals to us in the cab of the 08, due to the curvature of the platforms.

The Girl From Iponema - various

Did somebody say geese...?

What's The New Mary Jane - oddball Fabs curiosity

A cheery pic before I get the Ovaltine on the go... Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg in Oxon, I think it might be Witney, if the old A34 went through there...

This just in from a very wet Wembley North Junction where lots of poor sods in orange were getting horribly wet - it's very wet. It was also very wet on the M1 heading home, moist beyong words in fact. Stay dry persons of ER!

Long, dark and very, very damp...! There's a certain point about mid way through where there is a constant drip of water on the windscreen as I drive through it when diverted off the usual Market Harborough route. As I've mentioned before it's a very 'odd' section of railway which feels as though it exists in its own little bubble, despite the presence of colour light signalling. Any part of it would make a for a lovely model.