ozzyo Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 IIRC. there was TV "show" about some spotters having a day out. It started on the K.&W.V.R. and end up at Carnforth shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 21, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) scary kid's programme, 'the changes' has a western and cl.47 coming out of a tunnel in the opening titles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYco6bOsUQo EDIT: just had a quick skim, station exploding and rolling stock in flames at 5:58 Edited December 21, 2011 by keefer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Thought of another example just now.... 'The One That Got Away' with Hardy Kruger as a captured Luftwaffe pilot who does a runner on Blighty soil, some scenes were filmed on the Birmignham 'cut off' route at either Gerrards Cross or Beaconsfield, I forget which. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 And the engine shed and coaling tower at Didcot are quite recognizable (in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows). At one point there's a very visible shot of a GWR number plate as bold as the brass it was cast in. ...it might have been 6106. Seeing it again on a TV ad over the weekend, it certainly is 6106. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debs. Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 EDIT: just had a quick skim, station exploding and rolling stock in flames at 5:58 Well, that`s piqued my interest! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 what is the mainline station in Robbery? 57 mins in.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7wxjwaOfg8 they also use the same footage in Buster Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leander Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Crewe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted January 3, 2012 Author Share Posted January 3, 2012 It's Marylebone 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 This afternoon a Poirot Murder On The Blue Train,BR standard five on front of foreign coaches probably filmed at Peterborough ,shot at Paris looked like Marylebone before all the mods took place nice shot of overall roof night shot very atmospheric. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 It's Marylebone cheers dya know, i think i asked this on the old rmweb, and I think you told me that, thats the problem when you've got a memory like a goldfish. Mike cheers dya know..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I seem to recall reading somewhere that BR wanted all the film companies to use Marylebone - unless very large amounts of money were thrown at them. Filming is very disruptive. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 4, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2012 I seem to recall reading somewhere that BR wanted all the film companies to use Marylebone - unless very large amounts of money were thrown at them. Filming is very disruptive. Best, Pete. Windsor was of course another favourite back in double line, multiple platform, days as it could readily portray a 'large' station. I don't know what happened in later years but even in the late 1960s all filming jobs were charged in the relevant Divisional offices and you basically put all the costs together and whopped on what you thought was an appropriate 'profit' which as often as not depended on how well off the production team sounded over the 'phone. But if you could get them the right facilities it was money for old rope in lots of cases. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night' is the one I always remember, extensive use of Marylebone at the beginning - including hoards of screaming young girls. Then on board a train to Manchester! One of the only "pop" films that still bears watching all these years later mainly due to the skill of Director, Richard Lester. Best, Pete. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted January 4, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2012 Sherlock Holmes, a game of shadows, features a shootout in the shed at Didcot and Victoria bridge on the Severn Valley plus some rather nice shots of the Waverley paddle steamer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 The Victoria bridge over the river Severn was used in yet another version of the 39 Steps not a good version not like the origonal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdseyecircus Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 What about the Bee Gees video where they walk around a dilapidated (US?) station complete with decrepit rolling stock. Staying Alive possibly? is the video. Keith Edit: found the video! Filmed on an abandonded terminus set at MGM Studios, apparently Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) Three films that are almost all railway are La Bete Humaine starring Jean Gabin which was filmed on the Paris-Le Havre main line and starts with a terrific sequence on the footplate of a Ouest-Etat Pacific including the taking of water from troughs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QoNL_yf62A&feature=related. Bataille de Rail which is a fictionalised account made immediately after the end of the occupation and released in 1945 of the Resistance Fer (French Railway Resistance) particularly during the period after D-Day when they were doing their best to disrupt German communications. A lot of the action sequences inspired those in John Frankenheimer's 1964 film "The Train" starring Burt Lancaster but Bataille de Rail but there is a spectacular derailment and really good footage showing the behind the scenes operation of the railway in that era . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUY22ESzmEQ The Last Train 1973 ( Le Train in Fr) starring Romy Schneider and Jean Louis Trignitant as two people fleeing from the advancing Germans in 1940 on an evacuation train that crosses France to La Rochelle. Some really good shots of the the train hauled by ex PO 4-6-0 230G353 . The plot is based on a Georges Simenon short story but I think it is actually better than the original and the ending is incredibly moving. David Edited January 5, 2012 by Pacific231G 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lakeview770 Posted January 6, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 6, 2012 Bad day at black rock - Spencer Tracy And one I watched yesterday Press for time - Norman wisdom nice shot of a green DMU and a green 08 on a short freight both look as if they've been cleaned. Does anyone know where the fictitious town of Tinmouth was filmed? It always rains on a Sunday - 1950s Ealing comedy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 a common sight on many "Poirot" episodes are standard 5's mocked up to look like european locos. - Industrial revelations - many programs made by the late great Fred Fibnah - Micheal Mortillo's great british railway journeys - Railway walks with Julia bradbury - the two Barnstaple to Bideford episodes of James May's toy stories - many episodes of Midsumer murders - the recent Stella artois advert Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RELIEF SIGNALMAN Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night' is the one I always remember, extensive use of Marylebone at the beginning - including hoards of screaming young girls. Then on board a train to Manchester! One of the only "pop" films that still bears watching all these years later mainly due to the skill of Director, Richard Lester. Best, Pete. I think, if you look closely at Hard Days Night that they are getting off at Marylebone as well ! Still reckon the Great St Trinian's Train Robbery is my favourite filmed on the Longmoor Military Railway. RS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandman Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 The film 'Sahara' has a train where Matthew McConaughey and friends jump aboard a large goods train in the desert to gain access to a plant processing dangerous chemicals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted January 6, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) And one I watched yesterday Press for time - Norman wisdom nice shot of a green DMU and a green 08 on a short freight both look as if they've been cleaned. Does anyone know where the fictitious town of Tinmouth was filmed? According to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060857/ Tinmouth is Teignmouth Adrian Edited January 6, 2012 by figworthy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I know it's already been mentioned before, one of my favourite films, Train Of Events, loco shed scenes filmed at my favourite shed - Willesden, not Camden as mentioned before, but there is a shot of 1B from the lineside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DY444 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspV-9SoHWw Oh and by the way, all the twin napier/double heading/pair of 37s etc type jokes have already been done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I bet Daisy produces rather a sticky ticket Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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