I wonder if the Alderney railway ever consider building a tunnel for filming work? They have a Northern line carriage retired around 2000.
5701 survives on display at Greenwich University
Ah yes. Presumably not much use for filming though.
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Thank you, this is a really great shout . Could actually work. I'm hoping to get close up shots more than action filming, should have specified really. Close enough that the fact it's next to a playground/classrooms may not be an issue!
With regards a fairly modern ish station for filming ask TFL about charing cross.
Got featured about filming there on this eve's Secrets of the London Underground - with the underground's filming coordinator - Tim Dunn asked how much it costs to use - reply was 'aroud £3k to £4k an hour' ...
Wow that's actually even more than I thought. That's so much!!
Thanks for this! Very helpful and definitely worth an investigate...Depending on what exactly you are after, there is (or at least was) part of a C Stock car in a building lobby in Aldgate.
If it's still there, it may be worth seeing whether the building owner would allow filming in it for a suitable fee which might be less than LT would ask for.
More for interest I guess but Met Police have an old Central line carriage in a mock Underground station called Denton. This is at the Public Order training centre at Gravesend. Also at the same site but on the firearms training side is a similar set up but with what I think is a class 311 or 303 BR emu carriage although I'm not roughty toughty enough to have seen that in person on that part of the site!
it has gone and wasn't a C Stock per say, just using some recovered parts in a mock-up shell.Depending on what exactly you are after, there is (or at least was) part of a C Stock car in a building lobby in Aldgate.
If it's still there, it may be worth seeing whether the building owner would allow filming in it for a suitable fee which might be less than LT would ask for.
I would imagine the costs of building a tunnel for occasional filming would not support a business case.
Also the fictional town in David Jason's police series 'A Touch of Frost'.
The Northern line carriages in use today date from 1995. Now you just have to find a completely empty one to film - try the Mill Hill East branch off-peak!
The converted "D" stock has had some seating removed prior to donation to add in book shelves down one side, it very much does not look like a train any more inside suitable for filming, unless you can crop very close.
They do; it was shown on Secrets of the London Underground recently.
There is the tunnel at Ryde, though - it should be possible to string together a number of takes to create a long sequence that looks like it's in a very much longer tunnel?
At the time in 1987 Superman had a limited budget, so they used a London tube train in Aldwych station to look American in the hope no one noticed!!.
Rather off topic (apologies) but scenes of "Denton Station" in that series were filmed at Wakefield Westgate. Quite fitting as some of the "bad guys" in the show would have ended up staying nearby if they were real!
Rebuilt above the solebars, so all the electrical bits were older. As both damaged vehicles were 5xxx vehicles (which was why their partners couldn't be paired to make one good unit from the two danmaged ones) the two C08 cars could not have formed a workable unit - and in any case C-stock units were single-ended.
