Good Railway Movies

[Waddon]

Hi all,

Sorry for the inane and pointless post, but I was just watching 'The Taking of Pelham 123' (the original, not the remake), and I wondered what other movies featuring trains people like - or even particularly dislike? I'm thinking cinema fiction movies, rather than cab videos or GPO documentaries.

Off the top of my head, I love 'Oh Mr Porter' despite all the crazy geography (Southern Electrics in Ireland, anyone?) and I also recently saw a wierd European film called 'Kontroll' filmed entirely in some Eastern European subway system.

Any thoughts?

 

[The 158 Man]

The Railway Children is a classic. As is Brief Encounter.

Silver Streak has a beautiful train in it (light-hearted, funny film too!)

Back To The Future: Part III has one of the best steam trains ever created in it.

Under Seige 2: Dark Territory also has a cool train.

 

[JustinStacey.x]

Goldeneye.

 

[Lampshade]

Atomic Train

 

[Daimler]

Titfield Thunderbolt - always have loved it! A classic Ealing comedy from the '60s, with all the 'niceness' of country life in the 'good old days'. With a healthy dash of GWR branch line ahd S&D thrown in!

 

[Aussie_Rail]

Run away train?

Murder on the Orient Express?

 

[Lower Quadrant]

A realistic one is Train of Events.British Railways.See how we old uns worked.Several clips here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFf7yB7ofQQ

 

[SouthEastern-465]

Oh mr porter! is a good film.

It is very old but still very good.
Regards

 

[mrcheek]

The Cassandra Crossing.

A cheesy by-the-numbers 1970s disaster movie. Yet surprisingly watchable.

 

[Drsatan]

The "armoured train" in Goldeneye is just a class 20 and two mark2s disguised to look like a Soviet armoured train. Someone I know said to me that the scenes involving the train were filmed in Russia and I told him he was lying. They were actually filmed on the Nene Valley Railway.

 

[Death]

Under Seige 2: Dark Territory also has a cool train.

I saw this on the Sci-Fi channel earlier this week around a mates house, and I liked it quite a bit! I do have to laugh at a few little hiccups in the films plot, though... :razz:

• The train in question is heading from NYC to California, so why do we see it departing from NY Grand Central, which IIRC only serves lines running into Long Island?
• Then, when we see the characters boarding said train, we see them boarding from open air platforms. Grand Central's platforms are all subterranean...
• Most of all: If he wants to be back with his family as quickly as possible, why on Earth is he travelling with Amtrak when Greyhound would get him there a whole day quicker for half the price?

The Cassandra Crossing.
A cheesy by-the-numbers 1970s disaster movie. Yet surprisingly watchable.

That's another one I caught several years ago, and aye it's also a great film IMO. Just wish that I could still remember a bit more than the final scene! hock:

 

[harz99]

The Train with Burt lancaster; Von Ryan's Express with Frank Sinatra; both war type films.

 

[Aictos]

Oh mr porter! is a good film.

It is very old but still very good.
Regards

I know and the opening scene was filmed on Platform 1 at Hertford North,
Still, it was quite a decent film considering it's age.

How about the Oh Doctor Beeching series? Only ran to 2 series before being axed prematurely, now that was good and was just getting even better when it got axed,

Still, I would love to see a series shot on location along the lines of The Tube documentary at some of our mainline stations across the UK instead of endless boring Airport type reruns...!

 

[DJ_K666]

I know and the opening scene was filmed on Platform 1 at Hertford North,
Still, it was quite a decent film considering it's age.

How about the Oh Doctor Beeching series? Only ran to 2 series before being axed prematurely, now that was good and was just getting even better when it got axed,

Still, I would love to see a series shot on location along the lines of The Tube documentary at some of our mainline stations across the UK instead of endless boring Airport type reruns...!

I like the fact that Stephen Lewis was able to do his "Oh Gawd" thing just like Blakey from On the Buses. Just a different side to a similar character, with "I 'Ate you Butler" replaced by "I`m rushed off me feet"

And the fact that he`s in a signalman`s uniform.

 

[mrcheek]

Cant believe I forgot to mention this one earlier:

Runaway Train, starring Jon Voight.
With probably the best ending of any movie ever made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gma5-vpHpxk

 

[The 158 Man]

Runaway Train is a crap movie!

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I saw this on the Sci-Fi channel earlier this week around a mates house, and I liked it quite a bit! I do have to laugh at a few little hiccups in the films plot, though... :razz:

• The train in question is heading from NYC to California, so why do we see it departing from NY Grand Central, which IIRC only serves lines running into Long Island?
• Then, when we see the characters boarding said train, we see them boarding from open air platforms. Grand Central's platforms are all subterranean...
• Most of all: If he wants to be back with his family as quickly as possible, why on Earth is he travelling with Amtrak when Greyhound would get him there a whole day quicker for half the price?

It's good entertainment, but that's about it. Steven Seagal's 'acting' is atrocious. "What am I doin? Oh, I'm making a bomb!" :roll:

Don't think he is travelling with Amtrak is he? Thought it was Grand Continental? (Although I think they're ficticious anyway?) Nice livery though!

Anyway the whole film is offensive in terms of realism! Near the beginning of the movie, when it shows the train moving outside the windows it's clearly a steam engine and not a diesel!

I also prefer the cut version of this movie (available over here on DVD) as it's not as gory.

 

[mrcheek]

runaway train is a crap movie!

blasphemy!!!!!

 

[jp4712]

The Ladykillers (1955 version, not the awful Tom Hanks remake) - oodles and oodles of scenes of Copenhagen tunnel with steam everywhere, not an overhead wire in sight: the film does some geographic violence with the house at the centre of the action being south of St Pancras but north of Kings Cross but hey. And the ending is priceless - a true 'railway death'...

Paul

PS I went to see 'Trainspotting', boy was I misled!

 

[Waddon]

I went to see 'Trainspotting', boy was I misled!

Oh I don't know about that - lots of people with a very addictive pastime, getting into long drawn out conversations about the pleasures and perils of their 'hobby' and ending up with a massive trip to London where everything goes wrong, sounds just like railway enthusiasts to me.


And there was one train in it, if I remember...