I disagree..the bridge location was genuine, the hideout however, wasn't. I assume they couldn't get permission to film at Leatherslade farm. The bridge will have had extensive maintainence..and on more than occasion over half a century. It's bound to look different from the 1963 photo's! Did you spot the 'iffy' car tax discs and cigarette packets that didn't exist in 1963?
shareI am sure it was the real bridge. It certainly looked like it from documentaries.
shareIt is not the real bridge. The railway at the real location is a four track electrified line (and was in 1963 although the electrification was not yet energised). All of the rail related aspects of the production are wrong. Station signs at Glasgow would have read "Glasgow Central" as there were three other Glasgow termini in 1963 (Queen Street, St. Enoch and Buchanan Street). The locomotive used was a Class 37 rather than the correct class 40. There are only two tracks when there should have been four and the train is running on the wrong line of the two tracks (trains run on the left, the same as on our roads) and, as I have previously stated, by that time the masts and catenary for the yet to be completed electrification were in place. There is no way that they would have got permission to film at the actual location on the busy West Coast Main Line. In addition, the ground level signal shown is a shunting signal, only found in station yards, not a main line running signal which are all at high level (on columns or gantries).
shareyes your quite right,but also the engine,they tried to drive in the engine shed,could or did this actually happen."a runaway train"
shareIt was actually in Yorkshire, according to the Radio Times piece on the show. God knows where they used for Reynolds' arrest - probably the much-used Isle of Man - but it was emphatically NOT Torquay. I know, I live here.
shareGaryedgecombe said
I disagree..the bridge location was genuine,