Came into Surbiton (and it may actually have been Surbiton)
Yes, definitely the real Surbiton.
Quite a good clever tongue in cheek touch having Leonard Rossiter in this given that it starts at Surbiton and this was filmed two years after the debut of Reginald Perrin...
Yes, she's named in the credits.Was that Lynda Bellingham?
If you're referring to the one in "The Waterloo Bridge Handicap" then yes, that is indeed a VEP with curtains still in situ. You also see a train of C Stock in the District Line platform at Wimbledon, which I think only entered service on the Wimbledon-Edgware Road section of the District Line in about 1978.and are the interior carriage views ones with glimpses of orange curtains still in situ in the VEP?
Talking Pictures TV showed this 1961 John Schlessinger documentary on Waterloo a month or so ago.Does anyone know if any similar programmes were ever made about other major stations?
"We needed him really bawling," John said. The boy was old enough to realize they were shooting a scene; the camera was right there, and Mummy couldn't be too far away. So he offered the boy a bite of chocolate. When the child wanted more, John withheld it: "That's when he cried best, and the camera was ready, and we got all his facial reactions, which we used." That's the shot we see at the start of the scene, the desolate little boy in the middle of the station, all alone, crying furiously. Except that his tears aren't ones of terror: they're of rage.
Thanks - living then on the central division I wasn't very familiar with the REP or TC interiors, good to read your helpful and informative post!No, that's a 4-REP or 4-TC. The VEPs had suburban style interiors with 3+2 seating and doors to every seating bay (and to every compartment in the Driving Trailer Composite), whereas the CIGs, BIGs, REPs and TCs had 2+2 seating, end vestibules and only one seating bay per coach with an external access door.
The REPs and TCs were in many ways similar to the Phase 2 CIGs and BIGs but the REPs and TCs had a reading light above each window which the Phase 2 CIGs/BIGs didn't have (the Phase 1 CIGs/BIGs had reading lights incorporated into the luggage racks but I don't think Phase 1 CIGs and BIGs ever worked out of Waterloo, certainly not by the 1980s) so you can tell that it's a REP or TC.
Also, the VEPs lost their curtains in the 2nd class saloons in about 1979/80ish except for the 4-VEG Gatwick units which retained theirs until they were converted back to standard VEPs after the launch of Gatwick Express in 1984. They didn't work out of Waterloo, though.
I grew up in Putney in the 1980s so this episode brings back many memories for me. SUBs, EPBs, VEPs, CIGs, REPs, TCs and 508s. No Class 50s (though you do briefly see one train of Mark 2A/2B stock that might be hauled by a 50, and one 33 with headcode 95 - does anyone remember what service that would be?).
You also don't see any 455s - I think 1983 was the year that the first 455s entered service and about the last year for the remaining SUBs.
They show the BR sandwich shop and the station bar but they don't show the Casey Jones burger place, which I think might have been there then.
Towards the end you see a poster for "Rail tickets for children" - I think that was a special offer where you had to collect a certain number of tokens on Kellogg's corn flakes and rice krispies packets and you could then claim a free train ticket. I think I made use of that offer at least once when I was a kid!
Does anyone know if any similar programmes were ever made about other major stations?
Southampton boat train (Eastern Docks, I've just checked).No Class 50s (though you do briefly see one train of Mark 2A/2B stock that might be hauled by a 50, and one 33 with headcode 95 - does anyone remember what service that would be?).
At first I thought you were talking about the train interior in "Just Another Day - Waterloo Station", which is a REP or TC, but if you are talking about the one in "The Waterloo Bridge Handicap" then that is indeed a VEP with curtains. I have now edited my comment above accordingly (when I originally posted it I hadn't watched "The Waterloo Bridge Handicap").Thanks - living then on the central division I wasn't very familiar with the REP or TC interiors, good to read your helpful and informative post!
apols, yes I was talking about the Handicap film, so thanks for clarifying.At first I thought you were talking about the train interior in "Just Another Day - Waterloo Station", which is a REP or TC, but if you are talking about the one in "The Waterloo Bridge Handicap" then that is indeed a VEP with curtains. I have now edited my comment above accordingly (when I originally posted it I hadn't watched "The Waterloo Bridge Handicap").
IIRC the crying boy was a relative of John Schlessinger. He was interviewed in a documentary about BTF films and jokingly said he suffers no mental torment from his childhood stardom.Talking Pictures TV showed this 1961 John Schlessinger documentary on Waterloo a month or so ago.
https://www.britmovie.co.uk/forum/l...sion/53184-terminus-filmed-1960-released-1961 explains that the little boy was left deliberately on the concourse. It says:
Does anyone remember this musical tv film from the eighties?
Return to Waterloo, featuring music from Ray Davies and the Kinks and the actor Ken Colley as the sinister ‘Traveller’.