It did look a little odd to see a small steam locomotive drawing into Waterloo on the Windsor side. The scenes with the actual actors were at Birkhill, on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway. It would seem unlikely that is actual footage.
Maybe, I was more thinking that it looked quite a few platforms to the north, so could be the 'modern day' Windsor side but guess it depends on whether it is derived from a modern day image of Waterloo, or a historic one. It seems a bit too well defined to be a historic image and there is no obvious cab road, whereas the aerial view is a bit more grainy.
Yes, the year was mentioned or implied in the series - either 1952 or 1954 (I forget which).
), were always used facing outwards.
The loco hauling the incoming empty stock looks very much like an unmodified class O2 0-4-4 tank (i.e. not one of those that were shipped to the Isle of Wight and rebuilt with large coal bunkers).
Judging by the proportions of the boiler, it looks more like a Castle to me.
We were both wrong. If you look at the actual moving video with the coupling rods going, it's an 0-6-0T.
It looks when magnified to have a double chimney, so definitely a Castle!
I'm not sure why they had him arriving at Liverpool as sailings from Africa would have come into Southampton
Which would of course have made sense of a Waterloo arrival, and possibly even of the single track rural line, since it would have been feasible for the boat connection to run via the Mid Hants if the main line was unavailable.
Not having seen the programme, I'm not sure where the character was supposed to have come from, but passenger shipping services from West Africa operated by Elder Dempster Lines did operate to and from Liverpool. East Africa services by both British India and Union-Castle operated from Tilbury
He had come from Nigeria in the story, and the passenger list being consulted by the immigration officer was indeed headed Elder Dempster Line.
