What is the Year
What year does this take place in. Current time orCold war?
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Cold War, as evidenced by the modern vehicles, modern cellphones, modern computers and modern everything else.
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The trains weren't modern. It's a long time since I've seen slam door trains in England.
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Though I'm fairly sure that what really happened is that you go on fancy trains between major cities and don't get on the Crapline 101 to Bentwater or Portondown or whichever middle of nowhere military base this was based at. I live in Scotland's 4th largest city and unless heading to Glasgow, Edinburgh or England all trains are slow, rickety rust buckets from 1970.
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According to a poster in another thread, the train scenes were filmed at a preserved railway museum near Colchester (Essex), so it appears they did indeed use mothballed rolling stock. It was probably cheaper than hiring a real station and train for a week of filming.
I don't know anything about Scottish trains but in England slam doors were phased out for safety reasons many years ago. Even in the depths of rural Essex (where I currently live).
This is off topic movie-wise but first great Western still operate slam door trains out of Paddington towards Bristol and Wales. Newer trains than the one shown but they still are around :)
Mind the gap
What does it matter what the trains were like, lots still exist like that!
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