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Film 'One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing' locomotive identify?

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I have finish watch this film, I saw a part locomotive pass the level cross. I don't recognize that place with name Wooburn Green. I don't know if I am right is that record at Didcot railway center?
I know the locomotive is GWR but not sure the type and the number if anyone know.
 
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I have finish watch this film, I saw a part locomotive pass the level cross. I don't recognize that place with name Wooburn Green. I don't know if I am right is that record at Didcot railway center?
I know the locomotive is GWR but not sure the type and the number if anyone know.

Wooburn Green is in Buckinghamshire and closed in 1970.
 

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I have finish watch this film, I saw a part locomotive pass the level cross. I don't recognize that place with name Wooburn Green. I don't know if I am right is that record at Didcot railway center?
I know the locomotive is GWR but not sure the type and the number if anyone know.
According to "Horton's Guide to Britain's Railways in Feature Films" the film, shot in 1975, was partly done at Marylebone using '4300' class 4-6-0 number 5322 and coaching stock from Didcot, but little can be seen of them. Other scenes were thought to have been shot at Didcot itself; Horton cannot be certain about this, it seems.
 

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there are two railway sequences in this film, firstly the arrival in London as per the Marylebone sequence (brief) then the dinosaur is loaded onto a steam wagon which manages to drive onto a flat wagon marshalled behind the guards van (yes,really), the locomotive appears to be a saddle tank bearing "GWR" passing over a level crossing
 

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I remember that film being shot at Marylebone. I recall they had a mock-up train (Period coaches) built on Freightliner wagons, with a western steam loco on the front. It was not fired up but an 08 shunted the train from behind as directed and they had a steam generator of some sort on the steam loco to make it look as if it was fully working.
 

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It was 5322 used. Railway Magazine as I recall had pictures of the filming
 
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