Visitors to London over the next week may like to know of an upcoming season of movies and shorts celebrating the train on the screen.Details of the full programme are available at http://www.shawtheatre.com/shows/shows.asp
It includes:
The great 'Flying Scotsman' 80th birthday (outshopped Doncaster works Feb. 1923) film show - Tuesday March 25th, 6.30pm
Action sequences from 'The Flying Scotsman' feature film (1929)-35mm
1968, TV documentary (50th Anniversary non-stop run)
1969, TV documentary 'Tender Memories'
In the presence of saviour of 4472 'Flying Scotsman' Alan Pegler, and
with a short address from Roland Kennington, Chief Engineer to the
'Flying Scotsman' for the past 18 years.
Followed by
'A tribute to British Transport Films' Tuesday 25th March, 8.45pm
This is York - a day in the life of York Station in 1953
Snow drift at Bleath Gill - rescuing a snowbound train in 1955
Farmer Moving South - moving an entire farm from Yorkshire to Sussex in
1952
Blue Pullman - testing and preparing the new diesel express ( 1966)
Night Mail - poetry in motion!
'Steam on the screen' Sunday March 23rd, 2.30pm
Presented by Andrew Youdell, British Film Institute transport film archivist
'Isambard Kingdom Brunel'
'The Great Train Robbery' 1910
'Black Five'
'British Railway scenes - from the turn of the Century to 1939
'Longmoor Military Railway'- Long Vanished MOD railway system
'Runaway Train' [excerpts]- filmed at Longmoor
'Elizabethan Express'- non stop steam service to Edinburgh
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