On this day Diana Rigg was tied to the track at Stapleford!

Reminds me of another thread on here for some reason

On this day 4th April 50 years ago, The Stapleford railway hosted the Avengers as part of a plot based around the railway. It was called "Gravediggers"


http://theavengers.tv/forever/peel1-2.htm





There is a montage video of the railway new and of the original film put together by the Avengers society when they visited the other year


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Gosh - is it 50 years?

That episode made quite an impression on a 16-year old boy.

Just the right time to fire my enthusiasm for miniature railways.

Nice to see this post today, having so many happy memories of the SMR.

A re-enactment would have been fun, assuming there was a volunteer willing to take a dip in the lake! ??????

I remember seeing the episode. Stapleford was frequent place to visit for me over the years. I remember when it used to run from the station by the church - the land now part of the country hotel complex. The station near the main house with its traverser and the ocean liners on the lake: SS Northern Star, SS Southern Cross.

Link here: http://www.fsmr.org.uk/avengers.html

EastMidlander said:

Nice to see this post today, having so many happy memories of the SMR.

A re-enactment would have been fun, assuming there was a volunteer willing to take a dip in the lake! ??????

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yep if you know any Diana Rigg doubles that want to be dressed in a pvc cat suit and tied to our track Let me know and I can arrange LOL Woops we are getting very close to that other thread now

I think we might see if we can stop a few trains in June at the locn if capacity allows as we are normally flat out

Funny to think that the first owner of Stapleford was so set against the railways he was responsible for the massive curve in the Syston-Peterborough line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syston_and_Peterborough_Railway#Preparation
On the oher hand the next owner, Lord Gretton had been much enabled in building his fortune by the Midland carrying his beer from Burton

fsmr said:

yep if you know any Diana Rigg doubles that want to be dressed in a pvc cat suit and tied to our track Let me know and I can arrange LOL Woops we are getting very close to that other thread now

I think we might see if we can stop a few trains in June at the locn if capacity allows as we are normally flat out

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And of course the points and bay platform aren't there to divert the train at the last moment.
I should've remembered that seeing as their removal was one of the first close season jobs I helped with back in about 1977/78!

The Avengers. Classic telly

EastMidlander said:

And of course the points and bay platform aren't there to divert the train at the last moment.
I should've remembered that seeing as their removal was one of the first close season jobs I helped with back in about 1977/78!

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Yep just a straight run through now
You will have to give us a visit if you get a chance

Regarding Lord Harborough, there was also an attempt in the 1840s to bring the Syston and Peterborough railway around the South West of the park under Cuckoo hill rather than North East
Had that been successful, it would have been a different view on the train today including a short tunnel. Unfortunately, the tunnel collapsed due to its shallow depth taking part of Lord Harborough Cuckoo hill fox covert with it, and so the route was abandoned leading to the battles and the Saxby curve.
The tunnel abutments are still there I am led to believe if you know where although the tunnel is partly infilled. There is a rumour that part of the tunnel is still there unfilled under the hill. One of the old barns appearing to have capped shaft in the floor which wind noise can be heard from on certain days