I am a big fan of the 1976 disaster movie The Cassandra Crossing. This is set on a fictional train journey from Geneva to Stockholm. The train is put into quarantine on a disused branch line in Germany, where the bridge called the Cassandra Crossing is located, though the Cassandra Crossing bridge in the film is actually the Viaduc du Garabit in France.
I have a vague recollection of a serialisation of this on the radio, probably in the early 1970s. I ought to track down a copy of the book. There is a film version from 1956.
And there's a link between these two films as Ava Gardner featured in both.
Ironically, the film was shot on a disused branch line of the highly-efficient Southern Railway in England; the Basingstoke and Alton line, on which Cliddesden station took the part of Buggleskelly.
The film 'Bhowani Junction' was shot on the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire....as was 'The Great St Trinians Train Robbery' ten years later. The former featured class 8F 2-8-0s and Austerity 2-10-0s dressed-up with cow catchers and big headlights to represent Indian locos.
Anyone so computer-inept as myself tends to have the trouble from hell, with RailUKforums' quoting mechanism -- the slightest mis-step tends to plunge one right into chaos. As above (contrary to what is seemingly being said there): "I am a big..." to "in both" is quoted from
@Magdalia's post. "Ironically ..." to "Indian locos", is quoted from
@D6130's subsequent one (attributed above, to
@Magdalia).
Answering
@Magdalia -- concerning
Bhowani Junction and "I ought to track down a copy of the book": I'd reckon it, a grand read. I enjoyed all of Masters's "Raj era" novels:
Bhowani Junction admittedly the most, with its railway background. I confess also to liking
Bhowani Junction for the fact that it isn't the glamour-boy who ultimately gets the girl; but the ordinary, average, slightly twittish guy.
Answering
@D6130 re the film "Bhowani Junction": I admit to being a terrible purist and snob -- but my reaction to location and loco-type cast re shooting of the film, as described -- is, frankly, "Oh, dear God" -- and a resolve never to see the film !
Will you take radio programmes? "Parsley Sidings", not the funniest ever BBC comedy. I have no idea where it's supposed to be set.
There's a thread on "General Discussion", commencing 17 / 12 / 2018, about this very programme and where it might have been set; from context, one gathers, north of London and essentially on the LMS system -- though one poster on that thread nominates as a possibility, Woodford Halse. I opined on the thread, that the name -- and approximate location? -- maybe suggested by the real-life Parsley Hay station: on the Rocester -- Ashbourne -- Buxton line (passenger service withdrawn 1954): point of divergence of that line, and the Cromford & High Peak freight-only route.
I've never been an "Archers" fan; but have gathered that that programme's Ambridge was at one time, the terminus of a branch line from Hollerton Junction: closed in the first half of the 1960s under Beeching -- the controversy over that matter having featured on the show at the time, with its policy of bringing in genuine relevant current-affairs matters, as well as the characters' personal lives.