"The Primrose Railway" - CBBC, 5.30pm Sunday 1st December 2024

[John Webb]

I noted the above in my programme guide. According to the limited information in both the printed programme guide, newspaper and the on-line guide:

"This heart-warming feature-length drama is based on Jacqueline Wilson's 2021 novel - itself a modern take on E Nesbit's The Railway Children."

and

"...transfers the adventure to Scotland and the city of Glasgow where the (three) Robinson siblings live a comfortable live with their parents. However when their father disappears they and their mum are uprooted to the remote Scottish Highlands...."

and

"...find unexpected excitement, danger and a new sense of belonging on a Highlands heritage steam railway."

And my thanks to the Moderator who added:

Out Now: The Primrose Railway Children

A brand new feature film has arrived on CBBC and BBC iPlayer.

www.bbc.co.uk

Anyone know anything about where this was filmed?

 

[BigB]

I noted the above in my programme guide. According to the limited information in both the printed programme guide, newspaper and the on-line guide:


and

and

And my thanks to the Moderator who added:

Out Now: The Primrose Railway Children

A brand new feature film has arrived on CBBC and BBC iPlayer.

www.bbc.co.uk

Anyone know anything about where this was filmed?

Bo'ness and Kinneil railway I believe, filmed in the summer.

 

[John Webb]

Bo'ness and Kinneil railway I believe, filmed in the summer.

Thanks - did look at the end credits and they were credited. And at least the author does acknowledge E Nesbit's story as the inspiration for her version.

 

[65477]

The railway segment didn't get off to a good start with a establishing shot of an electrified line.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Think the programme was repeated again this morning (Sunday 22nd December 2024) on BBC1 at around 10.35 a.m. Is that it for now?

 

[Spamcan81]

Bo'ness and Kinneil railway I believe, filmed in the summer.

Hardly the Highlands if it was filmed there.

 

[65477]

Watched it through to the end, on Iplayer, some of the railway scenes were better than usual. Many of the nods to the 1970 film were a bit too obvious in my view. After the intro everything went OK until the final train journey when two stock shots of continental trains were included.

Channel 5 are showing "The Railway Children Return" as there main film on Christmas day.