Railway footage in feature films and television...

[steve1]

3 hours ago, lmsforever said:

The BBC called the derailed cement wagons on the wcml  carriages  the people who work in the press nowadays are pathetic  and show modern education is not very good .

 

At least the report contained punctuation and capital letters where required…

 

steve

[009 micro modeller]

54 minutes ago, steve1 said:

 

At least the report contained punctuation and capital letters where required…

 

steve

Indeed. While I’d also prefer them to have got the railway terminology correct, it’s roughly right from a non-specialist’s perspective. I also think it’s perhaps a bit of a stretch to assert that this minor error illustrates anything about the state of ‘modern education’ more generally.

[Northmoor]

I don't know if this has come up before in 60+ pages, but Level 42's "Something About You" video contains multiple unrelated clips:

 

 

See how many you can spot:

• The band are travelling in a Mk1 1st Class compartment;
• ECML two-track section cab view (possibly footage from the opening credits of Get Carter);
• Pre-TOPs 86 on Mk2 stock;
• Mk1s in maroon exiting a tunnel, under the wires;
• Class 455 EMU enters Waterloo;
• The band disembark from a 4-VEP and exit the platforms onto Waterloo concourse (barely recognisable).

On the plus side, I liked Level 42 in my youth and the video does star a young Cherie Lunghi......

[MartinRS]

 

I managed to record Driving the Train (1959) yesterday on Talking Pictures. You can find it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LHZOJvLCbE

I went through the week's listing and found that Runaway Railway (1965) is being shown on Talking Pictures at 9:30am on Saturday 29 Oct 2022. It was filmed at Longmoor Military Railway with a shot of Paddington Station and one of London Victoria. The film's location information is from https://railwaymoviedatabase.com/ which might be a useful resource for anyone wanting footage of the era they're modelling.

[ajaxjones]

I'm sure there was a train in Aliens, looked liked one in one of the loading docks?

[jamie92208]

We watched the first episode of a series called ThecPact on  IIRC, BBC this week.  That featured a young man sleeping in a Mk2 coach and then being chased round a yard full of Heavily grafittied bogie coal hoppers. It's set in Wales butvI have no idea where the railway scenes were filmed.

 

Jamie

[rogerzilla]

I watched David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" the other week and recognised the very brief shot on the SVR.  Far fewer trees in 1980 than there are now.

[MartinRS]

5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

We watched the first episode of a series called ThecPact on  IIRC, BBC this week.  That featured a young man sleeping in a Mk2 coach and then being chased round a yard full of Heavily grafittied bogie coal hoppers. It's set in Wales butvI have no idea where the railway scenes were filmed.

 

Jamie

 

I didn't see The Pact but have read that some of it was filmed at Big Pit, which is close to the heritage Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway.

[Pacific231G]

On 20/10/2022 at 18:21, 009 micro modeller said:

Indeed. While I’d also prefer them to have got the railway terminology correct, it’s roughly right from a non-specialist’s perspective. I also think it’s perhaps a bit of a stretch to assert that this minor error illustrates anything about the state of ‘modern education’ more generally.

It more reflects the time, or lack of it, that the journalists in the newsroom have to write the scripts for such news reports.  You'll often find that an error like that is corrected in later transmissions.

[John M Upton]

The Bill were fond of railway locations in the 1980's into the 1990's but I am not sure where this is.

 

The RTC liveried CCT van is especially interesting. 

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Just watched the war weapons week episode of Dad's Army, complete with BR van and pre nationalisation vans in bauxite livery in the background!

 

Mike.

[Steamport Southport]

1 hour ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Just watched the war weapons week episode of Dad's Army, complete with BR van and pre nationalisation vans in bauxite livery in the background!

 

Mike.

 

Might be the North Norfolk or somewhere nearby. They did use a sugar beet factory for some scenes.

 

Here's a list of known locations.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062552/locations?ref_=tt_dt_loc

[keefer]

In the most recent series of 'Mortimer & Whitehouse - Gone Fishing', episode 1 had them fishing the River Exe in Somerset/Dorset.

Their accomodation was 'The Granary' near Luxborough and the narrative would have them fishing a walk away from there.

However, much footage is of them fishing near what-looks-like a disused (skew) railway bridge, crossing over the river. This got my attention as it is always interesting to see long-gone railway infrastructure still in place.

The only disused railway anywhere near there is the West Somerset Mineral Railway, some distance to the East i.e. not an easily walkable distance away.

Satellite images aren't helpful as a) i'm not sure where I'm looking for and b) the rivers aren't that visible on the satellite maps.

I've taken some screen shots in the hope that someone with more knowledge of the area can recognise the bridge & location!

EDIT: actually looked to see where the Exe is (way to the West) so am even more confused

Edited November 12, 2022 by keefer
West Somerset Mineral Railway

[rodent279]

On 21/10/2022 at 21:03, Northmoor said:

a young Cherie Lunghi

Saw her in a Shakespeare play somewhere in London, back in about 1983.

[009 micro modeller]

On 05/11/2022 at 20:27, Steamport Southport said:

 

Might be the North Norfolk or somewhere nearby. They did use a sugar beet factory for some scenes.

 

Here's a list of known locations.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062552/locations?ref_=tt_dt_loc

I think another episode where they’re preparing for the King’s visit by train was filmed on the North Norfolk with a small preserved industrial loco, albeit with some old stock footage of an express train (hauled by an A4 if I remember correctly) spliced in as well. 

[Arpster]

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but this is a nice clip from the BBC Archive of John Stapleton on Nationwide interviewing spotty 'erberts at the end of platform 8 at Paddington in 1975. There's a good array of Duffs, Westerns, and other assorted loco-hauled trains in amongst their musings about spotting life.
 

 

[RichardT]

1 hour ago, Arpster said:

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but this is a nice clip from the BBC Archive of John Stapleton on Nationwide interviewing spotty 'erberts at the end of platform 8 at Paddington in 1975. There's a good array of Duffs, Westerns, and other assorted loco-hauled trains in amongst their musings about spotting life.
 

 

The year I started spotting!  That brought back memories. 

 

I thought that the lads all came over as sensible, articulate and with a sense of humour about their hobby, especially given some of the reporter's rather dense questions.  Perhaps that's why they had to include the oddball adult spotter later on, to satisfy the journalistic need for a "let's poke fun at these weirdos" moment.

 

RichardT

[Steamport Southport]

18 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said:

I think another episode where they’re preparing for the King’s visit by train was filmed on the North Norfolk with a small preserved industrial loco, albeit with some old stock footage of an express train (hauled by an A4 if I remember correctly) spliced in as well. 

 

Definitely, locomotive was Colwyn. Also using the Quad Art set ISTR.

 

https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/kitson-works-no-5470-45-colwyn-0-6-0st/

 

 

Jason

[luckymucklebackit]

The wife has been binge watching "The Walking Dead".  There are frequent scenes where the characters follow railway tracks that are completely weed free with shiny rail tops, years after civilisation has broken down, Network Rail should ask what the secret is!

[Pacific231G]

35 minutes ago, luckymucklebackit said:

The wife has been binge watching "The Walking Dead".  There are frequent scenes where the characters follow railway tracks that are completely weed free with shiny rail tops, years after civilisation has broken down, Network Rail should ask what the secret is!

Not so much the shiny tops- They can lose their shine in a few weeks-  but I've walked old railways in France disused for years but not yet lifted* which were almost entirely free of weeds and, at first sight, appeared to be still in use.  I assume they'd been treated with rather a lot of weedkiller. OTOH I've explored others that had, after about a decade or two of closure, young trees growing up between the sleepers. However, one of those actually reopened after I'd seen it in that state.

 

*Because the actual railway belongs to the state, or in the case of public light ralways  to a local authority, there's often been a long gap between closure and legal abandonment- usually longer in the case of a railway that was part of the Réseau National.

[Rugd1022]

Don't know if we've had this one before - from about 4mins in there's some Southern Region footage in the 1974 feature film version of 'Callan' starring the much missed Edward Woodward, an early Range Rover and an S-Type Jag...

 

 

[russ p]

1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said:

Don't know if we've had this one before - from about 4mins in there's some Southern Region footage in the 1974 feature film version of 'Callan' starring the much missed Edward Woodward, an early Range Rover and an S-Type Jag...

 

 

 

Is the full film on YouTube Nidge, looks a cracking film

[melmerby]

11 minutes ago, russ p said:

 

Is the full film on YouTube Nidge, looks a cracking film

Continuity's crap.

Wet road, dry road, wet road etc.

[Coach bogie]

Return to Yesterday was on 'Talking Pictures' yesterday afternoon with lots of GWR shots departing Paddington in the late 1930's with the often used shot of a train stopping on the sea wall with some getting out of a K22 full brake.

 

Mike Wiltshire

[keefer]

By accident, caught a bit of "The Champions" on ITV4, episode 'The Body Snatchers' - scene with a small steam loco and passenger coaches.

Partly filmed at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at Tywyn:

http://avengerland.theavengers.tv/about.htm#tyw.

 

Btw, I discovered that the Talking Pictures channel has an iplayer of their content - one I remember from the late-'70s is 'The Flockton Flyer': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flockton_Flyer