An old 1957 Film showed last Saturday on TPTV called ‘The Secret Place’, featured much on-location footage in the East End of London. Numerous views showed the Great Eastern Main Line between, I guess, Bethnal Green and Stratford on the continuous viaduct, complete with original DC Overhead infrastructure. In one scene, behind the actors could clearly be seen passing, a 9 car 306 formation, complete with its diamond pantograph, on each leading motor coach of the 3 DC units as built! Incidentally, in other on-street footage could be seen much Trolleybuses overhead wiring plus, an occasional brief glimpse of Trolleybus vehicles themselves.
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BBC2 is showing ‘Get Carter’ this evening at 11:05 pm, so if anyone who has not seen this, and is interested in footage of the ECML in the Deltic era tune in. All the railway scenes are in the first 5 to 10 minutes of the movie.
Tread Softly Stranger (1958), filmed mostly in Rotherham, features short scenes early on at Parkgate and Rawmarsh station. Later there are quite a few short shots of a working loco at Parkgate Iron and Steel Company.
The film is very evocative of the time and features Diana Dors at her stunning best.
The film is very evocative of the time and features Diana Dors at her stunning best.
EbbwJunction1
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I'm not sure whether it's already been mentioned (and my apologies if it has) but the Highland Railway "Jones Goods " 4-6-0 No. 103 appeared in the 1965 film Those Magnificent men in their Flying Machines. It played the part of a French locomotive, complete with NORD lettering on the tender, and hauled the train on which Terry-Thomas crashed his plane.
Gloster
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I'm not sure whether it's already been mentioned (and my apologies if it has) but the Highland Railway "Jones Goods " 4-6-0 No. 103 appeared in the 1965 film Those Magnificent men in their Flying Machines. It played the part of a French locomotive, complete with NORD lettering on the tender, and hauled the train on which Terry-Thomas crashed his plane.
See #190 and #197. The choice of 103 might have been because the French C.F.de.l’Etat acquired fifty locos almost identical to the Highland’s Castle Class in 1911. If they did so for this reason it would be an unusually determined attempt by film crew to be as accurate as possible, even though the Etat was in another part of the country. Ah hae ma doots.
Bit lacking in continuity - opening shot hauled by a WR King, has ticket inspected in a main line compartment, but then arrives behind an LMS 4-4-0 and steps out of a BR non-corridor coach.Tread Softly Stranger (1958), filmed mostly in Rotherham, features short scenes early on at Parkgate and Rawmarsh station. Later there are quite a few short shots of a working loco at Parkgate Iron and Steel Company.
EbbwJunction1
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Ah, thanks; I would have been surprised if it hadn't been mentioned before.See #190 and #197. The choice of 103 might have been because the French C.F.de.l’Etat acquired fifty locos almost identical to the Highland’s Castle Class in 1911. If they did so for this reason it would be an unusually determined attempt by film crew to be as accurate as possible, even though the Etat was in another part of the country. Ah hae ma doots.