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Replica French/German/Swiss/British (delete as appropriate) locomotive produced and destroyed for new Mission Impossible film.

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The Wensleydale Railway had a 92xxx they could have had for a few bob. They might even have paid them to take it away.
 
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50 years ago, they'd have gone to Vic Berry's and saved a few quid.
Now, if they'd brought up a few pacers instead.... I'd pay to watch that in cinematic hi-def. ;)
 

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It was 44781 in the film The Virgin Soldiers (good old Internet) :)
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And here she is in her disguise. Photo from Disused Stations website.
 

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Spoiler alert.....The "Fench" pacific has soared to its end in Derbyshire.....there is a video on "you tube".
 

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Clip here:

“Take 2. We forgot to put the film in the camera!”
 

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WANTED: Experienced Locomotive Restoration Engineers to rebuild a copy of a Britannia Pacific. Extensive crash damage, and the locomotive will need to be recovered from the bottom of Darlton Quarry where it met with it's accident. Apply to Mr T Cruise, c/o MGM, Hollywood.
 

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Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.
 

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As much as it looks spectacular and was built to be destroyed something inside me just makes wanton destruction for gratification seem wrong. I feel the same way about period dramas that occasionally crash period road vehicles. is it just me or do others feel the same?
 

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I don't have a problem with destroying something that has been built to be destroyed as part of the plot.

However, I think that it's wrong to destroy a genuine vintage vehicle, even if it's been bought from someone who knows what it's fate will be. Indeed, if the previous owner has sold it with the knowledge that this is going to happen to it, they're just as "guilty" - and yes, I know it's not a crime, hence the " and the ".

Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.

I've looked at the two previous threads on this, and I don't think we ever did. In fact, there doesn't seem to have been any real clues about who actually did built the loco, or where, or when.
 
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Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.

Probably one of the many many special effects or set design companies that exist to build this sort of thing. Watch the final film and you'll see it in the credits. Same as the full size replica of a TDB Devastator built for Midway to sit on a sound stage built to look like the deck of the USS Enterprise. That Devastator is such a good reproduction it's now in the USS Midway museum as no real ones survived. Nothing is beyond them if it's physcially possible and they have the budget.

Probably the only railway involvement would have been a representative of GBRf and NYMR checking it was safe to be propelled and run and wasn't going to damage infrastructure.
 

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Well I hope they clear up the mess.

I'm sure they will. I was in the area at the back end of April and noticed the track from a distance when out on a walk. Went up to see what they were doing and they were basically excavating the trench into which the loco has plunged. I'm sure that much of the work in the interim has been for an easy clean-up operation as the track had already been put in place.
 

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Probably one of the many many special effects or set design companies that exist to build this sort of thing. Watch the final film and you'll see it in the credits. Same as the full size replica of a TDB Devastator built for Midway to sit on a sound stage built to look like the deck of the USS Enterprise. That Devastator is such a good reproduction it's now in the USS Midway museum as no real ones survived. Nothing is beyond them if it's physcially possible and they have the budget.

Probably the only railway involvement would have been a representative of GBRf and NYMR checking it was safe to be propelled and run and wasn't going to damage infrastructure.

ORR were also involved see https://www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/...-team-helped-make-action-scene-reality-safely
 

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A slight giveaway at the start of the second video (post #47) is that steam or smoke is coming out of the chimney in "puffs" although the loco is stationary.
Though I'm sure that won't matter in the least in the final film!
 

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A slight giveaway at the start of the second video (post #47) is that steam or smoke is coming out of the chimney in "puffs" although the loco is stationary.
Though I'm sure that won't matter in the least in the final film!
When factory chimneys get demolished they usually give a couple of last puffs.:D:D
 

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A slight giveaway at the start of the second video (post #47) is that steam or smoke is coming out of the chimney in "puffs" although the loco is stationary.
Though I'm sure that won't matter in the least in the final film!

I'm sure they will make it look more dramatic in the actual film, but at 'normal speed' it looked curiously unspectacular!
 

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Probably one of the many many special effects or set design companies that exist to build this sort of thing. Watch the final film and you'll see it in the credits. Same as the full size replica of a TDB Devastator built for Midway to sit on a sound stage built to look like the deck of the USS Enterprise. That Devastator is such a good reproduction it's now in the USS Midway museum as no real ones survived. Nothing is beyond them if it's physcially possible and they have the budget.

Probably the only railway involvement would have been a representative of GBRf and NYMR checking it was safe to be propelled and run and wasn't going to damage infrastructure.
Reminds me of a scene in the Bond film 'Skyfall' where the tube train crashes through the roof, I always it thought it was CGI- although some CGI is involved, the carriages were real (ish).
In some documentary it mentioned the company who built it and showed the real shot of the sequence. It seemed to me they had real weight and a good build to them rather than something built in a flimsy way.
 

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In Goldeneye, can you remember the ‘Russian’ train James escaped with Natalia from? Apparently it was a Class 20 with a false nose. It blew up in the film but I don’t think it was destroyed in real life.
 

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In Goldeneye, can you remember the ‘Russian’ train James escaped with Natalia from? Apparently it was a Class 20 with a false nose. It blew up in the film but I don’t think it was destroyed in real life.
No it still exists and is now on the Mid Hants Railway.
 

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As much as it looks spectacular and was built to be destroyed something inside me just makes wanton destruction for gratification seem wrong. I feel the same way about period dramas that occasionally crash period road vehicles. is it just me or do others feel the same?
You really don't want to work at a scrapyard or waste reception site...the perfectly good stuff that gets thrown in skips/ crushed, etc.!
One waste reception site I worked at had a foreman who retrieved stuff and sold it on at antique shops/car boot sales...he ploughed the money back to the company, which enabled the site to employ three more staff to give much better service to the public (and retrieve things).

Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.
I'm always amazed at the amount of work and effort that goes into 'fooling' us. One film I was involved in had numerous 1940s vehicles, one of which was destroyed...but that was a modern replica built for the film, with a modern engine. The 1940 vehicles spent considerable time being started using extra batteries/cranking over, or topping up leaking water and oil systems.
One series I took part in was 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell', AFAIK everything you see is 'period' and 'authentic' looking, apart from the 'fantasy' sequences. In other words, evrything was made out of stone, wood, metal, wool, cotton, silk, horn, paper or leather....there was no plastic or composites or 'modern' inventions. I know that I had to undo 64 buttons to go to the loo (no zips!)
 
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