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Post by metrailway on Jun 18, 2013 10:40:00 GMT
London Terminus1944 documentary focusing on the workings of the Southern Railway's Waterloo terminus. Not LT but hopefully some members here will find the film interesting.
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castlebar
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Post by castlebar on Jun 18, 2013 11:16:36 GMT
Certainly found it interest because
1: at 01:09 the depatures board shows a train calling at Dorking North, Holmwood, Ockley & Capel, Warnham, Horsham and Bookham
How did that work??
2: at 05:40 the train leaves with several doors open. (" 'Elf n safety" please note )
3: just before the end, the "star" of the film embraces his beloved outside a branch of Boots advertising "surgical requisites", so perhaps the film had a very happy ending!
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Post by southfieldschris on Jun 18, 2013 12:31:38 GMT
Certainly found it interest because 1: at 01:09 the depatures board shows a train calling at Dorking North, Holmwood, Ockley & Capel, Warnham, Horsham and Bookham How did that work?? 2: at 05:40 the train leaves with several doors open. (" 'Elf n safety" please note ) 3: just before the end, the "star" of the film embraces his beloved outside a branch of Boots advertising "surgical requisites", so perhaps the film had a very happy ending! re 1: I suspect the Bookham label had got stuck and wasn't meant to be showing. I remember that used to happen quite a lot with the old flip-over departure boards. |
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Post by Rich32 on Jun 18, 2013 13:34:35 GMT
Certainly found it interest because 1: at 01:09 the depatures board shows a train calling at Dorking North, Holmwood, Ockley & Capel, Warnham, Horsham and Bookham How did that work?? 2: at 05:40 the train leaves with several doors open. (" 'Elf n safety" please note ) 3: just before the end, the "star" of the film embraces his beloved outside a branch of Boots advertising "surgical requisites", so perhaps the film had a very happy ending! re 1: I suspect the Bookham label had got stuck and wasn't meant to be showing. I remember that used to happen quite a lot with the old flip-over departure boards. Either that or it was a splitter (Effingham Junction not being shown as there may have been a faster Guildford via Cobham), although IIRC certainly in the 70's there was some sort of cross-platform arrangement at Epsom between Waterloo and London Bridge via Tulse Hill and Hackbridge services and Horsham/Effingham services with a complicated pattern of alternate origins serving alternate destinations. |
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Post by metrailway on Jul 28, 2013 23:46:04 GMT
I found another old film with Waterloo as it's subject on Youtube. There is a brief shot of the 1940 stock in action.
Terminus (1961):
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