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Background vehicle; The passing train depicted by two puffs of artificial smoke in the background of Odd man Out, a train crossing a viaduct in the idents for RK films, The Chicago El trains that constantly shake Elwoods' apartment in The Blues Briothers e Minor action vehicle or used in only...

Especially for realism

Here's the rating system for cars on the Internet Movie Cars Database. Maybe a bit of rejigging could make it fit this conversation? Not that I'm volunteering to go back twelve pages and star everything . Background vehicle Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene Vehicle used by a...

As far as I am aware there were no boat trains from Marylebone either. That whole thing is from long term recall so idk.

The announcer called it the'Down Continental' or something?

I watched Pelham 123 for the ...the time. Also on a subway theme, The Warriors and the episode of What We Do in the Shadows it inspired . There was a brief scene at the end of the third series at a LIRR? PATH? station. (Probably the Toronto Metro) . Also there's a portmanteau TV film called...

I thought she was only going to the airport. TBH that would be excellent connectivity for the era

Coming up in a while on Great! Action, Denver & Rio Grande, Two railway companies begin a deadly race to lay a railroad through a mountain pass. And 5action has the original Taking of Pelham 123, so that's the one I'll be watching.

Brief Encounter got a remake for American TV, Brockenhurst stood in for Winchester.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdrome has the chase in the finale. Along a similar theme, Spacehunter: Adventure in the Forbidden Zone has a gang of raiders travelling about on a low loader car propelled by? a sail?? that catches the radio waves??? from a radar dish pointed straight at it?????. Both...

Seconded, especially the footbridge.

In all honesty, we're all used to any number of American cities being played by Toronto I guess, the tramlines in the street are usually a dead giveaway. And London was played by Dublin more than a few times in'90s and '00s films and television.

The location control was so bad , at least a couple of the dings were with vehicles that had driven into the scene. Also Inspired an advert for Network South East.

The first book had Hagrid accompany Potter back from the West Country to Paddington by train. This would have been early'90s in book continuity, so the HST sets would have yet to be sardinised with coach-style seating. Not sure where you would have put a demi-giant in that case, in the van?

Quatermass and the Pit, and the Pertwee era Dinosaurs on the Tube serial of Doctor Who, although the scenes were all studio bound.