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Unusual locomotive at Newport Pagnell services, 23/08/2020

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Sounds like a lot of effort and money in a world where CGI exists. Maybe they write it off against tax?

Anyway, I’m off to write a blockbuster that requires the LMS twins, the Fell locomotive, a class 22, a class 13 and two 4DD trailer coaches...
 
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Sounds like a lot of effort and money in a world where CGI exists. Maybe they write it off against tax?
All sorts.of tax fiddles in the film industry. Not all of of them legit, if you want a good laugh, Google "Ingenious HMRC"
Tax scheme wasn't so "Ingenious" after all. Architects now being prosecuted by HMRC and sued by their investor clients.
High quality CGI isn’t cheap.
Indeed. And even now, you can usually tell, although I haven't seen anything as rubbish as that in "Titanic" for a long time. Some of that was truly shocking, even in the day.
 

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Maybe the reason to build a replica rather than borrowing a genuine French locomotive is that they will be using British coaches/wagons and the size discrepancy would be too obvious otherwise. After all, you're not supposed to mix 00 and H0 stock...
 

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The actual filming will apparently take place overseas but the "loco" would have to have been built to the British loading gauge if it was being tested on the Great Central Railway.
 

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Sounds like a lot of effort and money in a world where CGI exists. Maybe they write it off against tax?

Anyway, I’m off to write a blockbuster that requires the LMS twins, the Fell locomotive, a class 22, a class 13 and two 4DD trailer coaches...
Make sure that you have good, comprehensive fire insurance if you use the Fell diesel......
 

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Rive-Reine was a ficticious town where much of the action of the 1964 film took place. It was where the art train stopped due to Boule sabotaging the oil supply to the locomotive bearings, and where the train returned to after being diverted at Metz and the intermediate stations being fitted with false name boards making the Germans on board thinking they were in Germany.

I am intrigued as to why the name
 

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Sounds like a lot of effort and money in a world where CGI exists. Maybe they write it off against tax?

Anyway, I’m off to write a blockbuster that requires the LMS twins, the Fell locomotive, a class 22, a class 13 and two 4DD trailer coaches...
Actually maybe they write if off...
Far better wreck a model than a real engine???
 

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I think the posts about the loco later going abroad are true. On Wiki, searching Mission Impossible 7 there are reports about a railway bridge in Poland to be blown up, presumably with this engine on it at the same time. :)
 

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I think the posts about the loco later going abroad are true. On Wiki, searching Mission Impossible 7 there are reports about a railway bridge in Poland to be blown up, presumably with this engine on it at the same time. :)
Mission Impossible isn’t historical though is it? How backward do they think the Poles are?!
 

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I think the posts about the loco later going abroad are true. On Wiki, searching Mission Impossible 7 there are reports about a railway bridge in Poland to be blown up, presumably with this engine on it at the same time. :)

Yet it also now suggests no bridge in Poland will be blown up, any bridges looked at were quickly registered as national monuments to prevent it. It also suggests that the studio involved in the making of the film had also tried to bribe officials.
 

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I think the posts about the loco later going abroad are true. On Wiki, searching Mission Impossible 7 there are reports about a railway bridge in Poland to be blown up, presumably with this engine on it at the same time. :)
Tom Cruise is currently in the UK filming MI 7, so you never know. He's been flying his own helicopter around so keep an eye out for choppers landing near Loughborough
 

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The actual filming will apparently take place overseas but the "loco" would have to have been built to the British loading gauge if it was being tested on the Great Central Railway.

Wasn‘t the GCR built (or at least originally planned to be built) to continental loading gauge, to connect with the then proposed channel tunnel?
 

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Wasn‘t the GCR built (or at least originally planned to be built) to continental loading gauge, to connect with the then proposed channel tunnel?
A common myth. Many years ago I contacted them about testing a continental coach which we were fitting out as a track recording vehicle. We would have had to pay for removing and replacing several sets of platform coping stones. It eventually went to the Nene Valley where it could be run without infrastructure changes.
 

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When, in the early days, locomotive "King Haakon" was running on the GCR, they had to move/trim quite a few platform edging stones!
 

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Posts on Facebook show the loco manged to reach Rothley today, with the help of a Peak, there are rumours of a diesel engine in the tender of the mystery loco.
 

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Posts on Facebook show the loco manged to reach Rothley today, with the help of a Peak, there are rumours of a diesel engine in the tender of the mystery loco.
I think a Scania engine was mentioned upthread?
 

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The film The Train used mainly old - due for scrapping SNCF 230B class locomotives, which in the Whyte system are 4-6-0's. They were always based in the Eastern Region (1), formerly Est, which, of course would have been the direction of travel to Germany from Paris.
The main station name of Rive Reine was well chosen I believe. Rive Rene can be translated as Queens Bank, but interestingly Rive not only means bank (as in a river) but also means to break into parts often by force, which of course, is exactly what happened in the train wrecks.
 

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A common myth. Many years ago I contacted them about testing a continental coach which we were fitting out as a track recording vehicle. We would have had to pay for removing and replacing several sets of platform coping stones. It eventually went to the Nene Valley where it could be run without infrastructure changes.
To go OT. Was that the vehicle for Spain? I did a second-mans turn during the testing of that.
 

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Today I popped into Rothley station yard, maybe I should have gone to Specsavers. :) On the down line, just north of the station I saw the Loco with smoke coming out of the chimney but it appeared to be top and tailed with a Peak and I'm sure it was two former Greater Anglia mark 3 coaches in between. Has there ever been a stranger consist? Just my opinion, but perhaps the tests are to see how realistic the steam/smoke effect is when the Loco is moving at speed.
 

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It might be hard to find out what's actually being made/remade as a lot of productions shoot under alternative titles. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom shooting in Hampshire was done under the title "Ancient Futures"
 

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From elsewhere I note that the mystery Britannia lookalike has now arrived by sea in Norway, along with some Orient Express coaches, I have no knowledge whether the coaches are replicas or genuine.
 

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From elsewhere I note that the mystery Britannia lookalike has now arrived by sea in Norway, along with some Orient Express coaches, I have no knowledge whether the coaches are replicas or genuine.
That sounds interesting. I don’t suppose you could post a link could you?
 

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Mission Impossible 7 is filming in Norway.....
...in More og Romsdal
And when I put that into google maps a photo of a loco on a low loader at a port popped up.
So I guess they found a bridge in Norway hey can blow up instead of the Polish one. any ideas?
 
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My cousin lives in Norway and sent me this
 

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My cousin lives in Norway and sent me this
"Lokomotivet skal vaere av typen BR Standard Class 7, bedre kjent som Britannia-klassen. Det fins bare to slike lokomotiv igjen i verden i dag" translates as

"The locomotive shall be of the type BR Standard Class 7, better known as the Britannia class. There are only two such locomotives left in the world today"

so not particularly illuminating :(
 

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If they don’t destroy it in a bridge demolition they can slap a face on it use it for this :lol::lol::lol:
 

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It'll cost them a lot if they do ... the rights holders are very strict about the use of the face and number!

One of the engines is on the Mid Hants railway, and whilst they can use the engine on normal services, they have to remove the face and the number when they do so. They can only use the full kit on specific "TTT" Days, and I understand that it costs them quite a bit to do so.
 
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