roythebus
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Post by roythebus on Jan 3, 2010 18:09:16 GMT
This may just be in the wrong slot, but...
tuned into one of the digi channels yesterday to catch the last 20 minutes of the classic 1949 film "The Blue Lamp", the forerunner of Dixon of Dock Green. wow, what a wealth of transport interest in that film. The bits I saw included shots across Scrubs Lane with trolleybuses in the background; scenes around the WLL exchange sidings, where the copper chases the villain across the electrified track. Now I expected it to be the NLL line, but no, he was almost run down by a standard stock in red and cream on the Central Line, just where the old dairy was by White City, now hidden under Westway!
Moe transport scenes in Harlesden with plenty of trolleybuses, and car chases around Ladbroke Grove. I suppose I ought to try and get it on DVD just for the tranport interest!
Oh, and the car chases down roads with not another car in sight!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2010 21:41:25 GMT
Oh, you've got to get the DVD Roy, it's a fabulous film. I think it's probably my favourite film of all time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2010 22:17:23 GMT
From the film:  PC Andy Mitchell just after his near miss with a train of standard stock at White City. I think this is somewhere near the intersection of Westway and Wood Lane. |
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Post by roythebus on Jan 3, 2010 22:38:06 GMT
That's the shot. the dairy in the background, behind him was the GW connection with the West London line, lifted when they built Westway! And the standard stock running on the right hand side. Must get the DVD...and Passport to Pimlico.
My son's just told me he's got a copy of Dempsey and Makepiece where I drive the W&C train that gets blown up! Cor, exciting stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2010 19:57:40 GMT
It really is an excellent film - and very illustrating of a snapshot of "real London" in the 40's (much like the Naked City did for New York) - with real street shots. I love the dog track scene with the bakelite phone being used for Operation Turnstile to catch Tom the villain.
I reccomend also another Ealing film "A Run for your money" - which has excellent shots on the Aldwych branch with Hugh Griffith and harp , RT;s and very evocative shots of Paddington with Llanstephan Castle running on an up Swansea , and as for the end of the film with a pannier tank and a "B set" - .............
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Post by tubeprune on Jan 6, 2010 10:52:12 GMT
There's another movie with LU in the 1950s but I'm can't remember the name. It ends up with some crooks being chased across Farringdon sidings at night. I think Montgomery Clift was in it. Anyone remember the film?
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Post by towerman on Jan 6, 2010 19:34:50 GMT
Can vaguely remember one from the 50s with Glenn Ford where someone has hidden a bomb on a main line goods train and they're frantically searching the marshalling yard for it.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jan 6, 2010 21:21:30 GMT
Can vaguely remember one from the 50s with Glenn Ford where someone has hidden a bomb on a main line goods train and they're frantically searching the marshalling yard for it. "Terror On A Train" 1953 |
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Post by railtechnician on Jan 7, 2010 4:02:12 GMT
In this line there's another film too, the name of which escapes me. A young lad is chased all round a station, IIRC the villain wants to silence him for witnessing a crime. Shots are of a bombed out station and in the final scenes the villain and the police are negotiating beams across a disused lift shaft. I'm fairly sure it was a 1950s film although I can't recall who's in it.
The one thing I do recall is the lad apparently hiding between two pillars, the camera panning along the subway and then down focussing on his shoes, this being what the villain sees. He goes to grab the kid by the throat but he isn't there at all, it's just his shoes!
As for the Blue Lamp I agree with the comments, a great film and so evocative of its time.
As for Farringdon sidings etc I recall, when I worked out of Whitechapel depot in the late 1970s a robbery having taken place one afternoon and our H&C train being held up at King's Cross as the thieves had been cahsed onto the station and tried to get away by running down the tunnel towards Farringdon. Police were alerted to attend Farringdon and then those at King's Cross boarded our train which proceeded at walking pace with the law ready to jump out and catch the crooks. In the event we arrived at Farringdon and as we approached the platforms one villain was halfway up the brickwork over on the CWL scaling the retaining wall to try and escape to the street with two constables in pursuit.
Of course Farringdon is one of those WW2 bombed sites that survived in derelict state into the 1980s, there were quite a few around London back then.
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Post by elo10538 on Jan 7, 2010 7:40:23 GMT
The film in which the young lad, actor ' Andrew Ray', is chased around a supposedly disused Underground station, is called the 'Yellow Balloon'. The station used for the scene was I believe Queensway on the Central Line.
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Post by towerman on Jan 7, 2010 18:58:33 GMT
Wasn't Andrew Ray Ted Ray's son?
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Post by Bighat on Jan 7, 2010 21:07:36 GMT
Wasn't Andrew Ray Ted Ray's son? If you are old enough to ask that question AND remember him in The Blue Lamp, you shouldn't have to ask!  Evening All! ;D ;D ;D |
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