With the odd exception railways don't often feature in British movies. The Railway Children is good, as are Oh Mr Porter, Ladykillers and the Titfield Thunderbolt. Which are your favorite British railway movies? What can you recommend?
shareyou mentioned my fave, "oh mr porter". its brilliant. some great stock footage of the time as well
shareBrief Encounter, The Lady Vanishes and Murder On the Orient Express are all cracking British films featuring railways.
shareDon't forget 'Train of Events'...
shareHow about 'Get Carter' (1971).
Okay it's not really about trains, but the films opening titles with Caine's Carter taking the train to Newcastle just turns me cold.
It's amazing and that train was being hauled by a classic 1960's Deltic diesel locomotive.
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I was going to mention Get Carter too. I'm no trainspotter but I understand why the sound of a claggy Deltic warming up is something special. And those trains really could shift.
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The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
One Good Turn (Norman Wisdom goes to Brighton with a group of orphans and manages to lose his trousers on the train after upsetting a carriage of snobby passengers)
The Ghost Train (1941)
The Lady Vanishes.
From Russia With Love.
Night Train To Munich.
Sleeping Car To Trieste.
The Bridge on the River Kwai.
North West Frontier with Kenneth More. The whole plot is practically train-bound.
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