Mrs Biggs coming soon...............

[crewmeal]

I'm trying to work out what loco is used in the preview of this drama that's about to be shown on ITV 1. My guess is a 67. Any other ideas?

 

[Smudger105e]

It looked like a Peak to me on the trailer I saw...
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It looked like a Peak to me on the trailer I saw...

http://www.itv.com/mrsbiggs/

 

[ainsworth74]

It doesn't look like a 67 to me. Peak is the closest (or one of the other types with that sort of nose) but is that even a real train, it looks a bit like cheap CGI?

 

[David]

Definately not a peak. More like a 37 or a 40.

 

[Chris125]

Wouldnt be surprised if thats been filmed on the GCR, certainly looks like it.

Chris

 

[YorkshireBear]

Wont be a 67 wouldnt be accurate!
on another note, i love the actor for Mr biggs!

 

[Rugd1022]

It's a 40.... most likely D306 / 40 106 by the looks of it.

 

[ex-railwayman]

Well, if you paused the trailer at 17 seconds you can see the nose of the engine. and as the drama is about the life of Ronnie Biggs, it would include the Great Train Robbery, so, it is a Class 40 as D326 was the locomotive involved, how on earth can anyone consider it to be a Class 67, very strange.

Cheerz. ex-railwayman.

 

[matt]

david l on wnxx wrote

Most of the railway scenes filmed on the ELR earlier this year.

We did try to advise, but it is a 'drama' and as such licence was used.

D335 as D326 though.

 

[FLHH East Anglia]

deffinately a 40.

 

[The_Rail_WAy]

I thought it looked like a 40 used in that particular shot to be honest which would be realistic seing as it was 40 126 involved in the actual robbery.

It was'nt a 67 mate but hey-ho it was less then 10 years ago when I got me head around loco classifications!!

 

[CarltonA]

Rumour has it parts of D326/40126 have survived. Allegedly some wheelsets have been reused in a steam loco tender built at a preserved railway. Could be a load of old ........ of course.

 

[Southern]

Wont be a 67 wouldnt be accurate!
on another note, i love the actor for Mr biggs!

Didn't seem to bother the makers of Ashes to Ashes!

 

[fadge]

Nice to see the researchers did their job.

The year is 1957 and the train is hauled by a 47 followed by a scene of the train pulling in to the station with a western in the adjacent platform!

Nice work

 

[102 fan]

Were the terminal scenes CGI?

 

[Southwest]

Were the terminal scenes CGI?

Errr, yes!

 

[steamybrian]

Noticed Bury Bolton Street being used with "Reigate" nameboards....!.

 

[Jonfun]

Errr, yes!

Not sure whether you'd call it CGI as such, more very clever editing. They'd taken bits of Manchester Piccadilly, bits of Manchester Victoria, and bits of Bury Bolton Street and merged them digitally into one station - presumably so wherever they filmed individual scenes, it would look 'in place'. Okay looks a bit tacky, but full marks for effort!

 

[102 fan]

Twice in the last episode they made reference to 21 inches of pressure!