Train films/shows on TV

SL65 · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:38 pm

DavidB · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:46 pm

The miniseries ANZACS last night had a quick shot od D3 639. Does anybody know the location? Also where was the location, supposedly in France, where they were unloading crates from cattle wagons?

CHeers
David

DavidB · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:39 pm

The last episode of ANZACS last night had K153 and what was probably Steamrail's entire fleet at the time, including a Z van. It was running at a fair clip on single track, but I couldn't identify the location.

Cheers
David

SL65 · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:48 am

I watched The Day of the Roses last night on pay TV , was it filmed in Sydney or Brisbane ? Because i remember reading an article in an old TV week magazine that it was filmed in Brisbane . Can anyone Clarify where it was flimed.

dthead · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:46 pm

Vic: saturday about midday-1.30 - train disaters 2 I think.....channel 9.

Regards,
David Head

Johnmc · Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:21 pm

DavidB · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:05 pm

49th Parallel - 1.35am Friday on ABC. Some good scenes of Canadian steam in the 1940s.

Cheers
David

PalmerEldritch · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:57 pm

From the Age, Monday July 11, 2005, p.4:

DavidB · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:25 am

We Can be Heroes last night had a few scenes filmed at Lara. There was a brief shot of an N on an N set and G-X on a cement train.

Cheers
David

DavidB · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:36 pm

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (the 1998 remake), 11.35pm Friday (2/9) on Seven. Check local guides.

Cheers
David

Railfan9949 · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:57 pm

I saw saw an ad for tonight's episode of 'Blue Heelers' where one scene is filming around 'Newport'.. around 'Steamrail' to be exact I think as there some old steam carriages..

8:30 EST! Channel 7 Wink

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Via City Loop · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:02 am

Mt Thomas seems to not only be the crime capital of Victoria but is now the also where old trains go to die by the looks of the amount of crime taking place around the Mt Thomas worskshops. Also several scenes were filmed on Champion Rd in this episode, the location budget must be getting a hiding.

Look Both Ways has lots of train action from Adelaide.

Railfan9949 · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:41 pm

Yeah, nothing much was shown, there were shots of Willamstown station..
a big LOL for the fact it is Mt Thomas which is suppose to be in the country and the a shot of Williamstown station showed the overhead wires for suburban trains!! Laughing

it was indeed Steamrail, with the old carriage a give a way... and was that a old v/line in the tangerine livery carriage.. or the early WCR carriage?

Hey also they got to climb into a DERM still under restoration!! note the 2 percaline toilets on the floor!!

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nosecone · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:48 pm

Sydney TV Guide Search for Wednesday October 5 2005 (don't know about other city times)

Movie: The Tunnel
Time: 04.30 (Thursday Oct 6)
Channel: 2
Duration: 90 Minutes

Crooked finances hinder the completion of an undersea tunnel to America.
Drama
Dir: Maurice Elvey
Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans, Walter Huston

1935, B&W
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A lot of railway action but confined to futuristic transports of workers to the work-face deep beneath the Atlantic. Look out for the amazing rear-engined, air-cooled Tatra car with dorsal fin(!) parked at the foot of the stairs in one of the scenes: it's not a prop but a real production vehicle.
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Movie review from http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue200/classic.html

For centuries, the dream of uniting Great Britain with the European continent by tunneling under the English Channel had seemed impossible. However, thanks to the resiliency of his patented Allanite steel, Richard "Mack" McAllan (Dix) was finally able to bore a passage under the treacherous waterway in 1940 . Now, the brilliant engineer has an even grander scheme: he wants to burrow beneath the Atlantic Ocean to connect England with the United States.

With the support of his wife Ruth (Evans) and his best friend, Frederick "Robbie" Robbins (Banks)--the inventor of the radium drill--McAllan presents his outlandish plan to the world's leading industrialists. Most of the tycoons scoff at the idea, but a couple are willing to commit the necessary funds, and work on the project begins.

Although progress is steady over the next few years, shareholder interest in the tunnel begins to wane. McAllan flies to New York and, accompanied by the gorgeous daughter of a key investor, embarks on a months-long public relations tour. At the same time, a strange "tunnel sickness" starts to afflict the laborers. Ruth, who, unbeknownst to her husband, has been volunteering in the underground infirmary, contracts the ailment and, realizing that it will distract her tunnel-obsessed spouse, runs away with their young son.

Despite cave-ins and other calamities, work continues on the project for nearly a decade. But, just as McAllan and his men are about to complete the immense endeavor, they encounter an unexpected subterranean hazard which threatens not only to destroy the tunnel, but also to kill his now-adult son Geoffrey (Jimmy Hanley).

Sudsy, socialistic science fiction

Released in 1935, Trans-Atlantic Tunnel--which is actually an Anglicized remake of a 1933 German film titled Der Tunnel--is a fascinating blend of science fiction, soap opera and subtle socialist dogma. The picture offers artful commentaries on corporate power and personal ambition, while at the same time marvelously capturing the uplifting, "can-do" spirit evidenced by so many of the great engineering feats of the Depression era.

As politicians utter grand statements over the worldwide "Ultrawave Television and Broadcasting Station," expounding on the project's peaceful potential, the industrialists funding the construction--including, among others, a leading arms merchant--actively manipulate the stock market to maximize their wealth. Their blatant exploitation of the media, government and even McAllan provide an interesting anti-aristocratic view of the future not terribly removed from that of the silent SF classic Metropolis, which had been issued only nine years earlier.

The picture also examines the impact of the massive undertaking on the personal lives of the people involved in the enterprise. In a typically chaste, 1930s-movie manner, a love affair develops between Ruth and Robertson, spurred in part by McAllan's prolonged absences and the obvious attraction of Varlia Lloyd (Vinson)--the financier's beautiful daughter--to the dashing engineer. While these romantic interactions are often overemotional, they unquestionably enrich the adventure.

Considering the period in which the film was made, the special effects are also impressive, especially those involving the various vehicles and machinery found in the tunnel's vast interior. At times Trans-Atlantic Tunnel can be too talky and melodramatic, yet, as an artifact of an age filled with both global optimism and gloom, it remains truly eye-opening and enjoyable.

kipioneer · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:31 pm

Currently in the art house cinemas is "Look Both Ways" which is an excellent film starring William McGuinnes as a photographer who has just dicovered he has cancer, and a series of events revolving around a man being run over by a train.

The film was shot in Port Adelaide among other places around the back of the railway museum, with, it would appear, the help of the Museum, and from TransAdelaide.

Railways and trains form a major backdrop to the action. The viaduct over Commercial Road is prominent.

The film is a bitter-sweet black comedy dealing with mortality.

Train drivers will immediately sympathise with the driver who makes a brief appearance.

Neil - the KIPioneer
Hawthorn SA