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Trivia: Steam Locomotives That Have Appeared In Films

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I visited the Bradford media museum this week and as part of the experience I watched the 1935 film ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. The locomotive pulling our hero Hannay I think was Trigo, so what other steam locomotives have been shown on the silver screen?
 
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Basher said:
I visited the Bradford media museum this week and as part of the experience I watched the 1935 film ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. The locomotive pulling our hero Hannay I think was Trigo, so what other steam locomotives have been shown on the silver screen?
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Wasn't there an adaptation of the Great Train Robbery which had enough attention to detail from the art directors that a preserved class 40 was temporarily given the identity of the loco which was involved?
 
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The British Film Institute (BFI) have a large collection of films about and including railways.

This should be a link to a pdf article giving quite a lot of detail: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.or...se-railways-film-bfi-player-2016-02-24-v2.pdf It leads in turn to other articles and films.

This should be a link to another BFI web site containing free films, some of them very well known:
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/railways-on-film

And, finally, here's a link to my favourite railway film .. "The Last Journey". https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Journey-Return-Stranger-DVD/dp/B007NCJFUE
Set (and filmed) on the GWR, it's the story of Driver Bob Holt's last journey before retirement - and an action packed one it is. The film features many GWR locos of all types, and although most of them can't be identified, it's quite easy to see what classes they are.
 
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Wasn't there an adaptation of the Great Train Robbery which had enough attention to detail from the art directors that a preserved class 40 was temporarily given the identity of the loco which was involved?
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Yes, even down to temporarily adding split headcode boxes (the preserved real split box 40 was not available for some reason).

A (James Bond?) film used a class 20 with various accoutrements to make it look Russian (and quite convincing it was, too, in my opinion, even if underneath it still looked like a 20!).
 
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I watched a 1954 film on Talking Pictures called "Lease of Life" yesterday.

Britannia 70020 (unnamed) made at least a couple of entries into the local terminal station. Hauling a rake of maroon non corridor suburban stock I would think it made several passes being filmed from different angles.
 
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Titfield Thunderbolt used 'Lion' and a GWR 0-4-2 (and a wooden model of same mounted on a lorry for street chase scenes). In the scene where they reach the 'big' station (actually Bristol Temple Meads) lots of other western region stock is visible.
 
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Basher said:
I visited the Bradford media museum this week and as part of the experience I watched the 1935 film ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. The locomotive pulling our hero Hannay I think was Trigo, so what other steam locomotives have been shown on the silver screen?
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Another 1935 film is The Phantom Light, viewable on Youtube, with Merddyn Emrys pulling the hero.
 
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