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MacDonald & Dodds - ITV last night

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Can anyone identify which tunnel was used for filming the Box Tunnel scenes? I hope that people watching it don't think that the GWR main line still uses bull-head rail.
 
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Can anyone identify which tunnel was used for filming the Box Tunnel scenes? I hope that people watching it don't think that the GWR main line still uses bull-head rail.
I don't think the majority of its target audience know what bullhead rail is. Or flat-bottomed. Or actually care.
 

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I don't think the majority of its target audience know what bullhead rail is. Or flat-bottomed. Or actually care.
I did forget to put a smilie laugh after my last comment, which was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.
 

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The interior shots apparently used Greet Tunnel near Winchcombe on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway.
 

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I must admit that I thought that when they went into the former MOD site, there would be a reference to the Steam Reserve which, as we all know, is somewhere adjacent to Box Tunnel!
 

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Am I the only one who is a tad uncomfortable with the subject matter of this programme?

Very clever weaving of fact and fiction, but I wonder if it might encourage trespassing in a very dangerous environment, especially given the claims that there were no overnight trains and the first of the day through there was around 7am?
 
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