Our Railways Under Nuclear Attack

[Trackman]

I've never seen anything so terrifying and relentlessly grim! It's a superb work, though, the sort of thing the BBC was really good at making.

It is, there was talk of it being banned and was the talk of the town and the press as it was so terrifying.
Yet, 'Scum' from 1977 wasn't shown on British TV until 1991.
To me, 'Scum' would seem like Emmerdale Farm compared to 'Threads'

 

[Journeyman]

Having never seen the film, but seen the iconic bombing scene... it just invokes terror. I don't actually want to see the full thing as that bombing scene is enough to demonstrate the destruction.

It's a Sunday school picnic compared to what follows.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Having never seen the film, but seen the iconic bombing scene... it just invokes terror. I don't actually want to see the full thing as that bombing scene is enough to demonstrate the destruction.

I've not seen Threads, but the nuclear bomb scene in Terminator (2? I forget) gave me nightmares for months as a kid, it really is quite gruesome.

 

[Journeyman]

I've not seen Threads, but the nuclear bomb scene in Terminator (2? I forget) gave me nightmares for months as a kid, it really is quite gruesome.

That'll be Terminator 2 - "I am an obsolete design!"

 

[Cowley]

It's a Sunday school picnic compared to what follows.

Yep. I’ve watched it a couple of times and it still gives me the fear when I think about it.
I don’t think anything else has ever captured the horror of a nuclear war better.

 

[Journeyman]

Yep. I’ve watched it a couple of times and it still gives me the fear when I think about it.
I don’t think anything else has ever captured the horror of a nuclear war better.

Yeah. It was very well researched, and the understated docu-drama style, looking way into the future, made it incredibly hard-hitting. However hard it is to stomach, it's a masterpiece.

I didn't see it until around 2003. I was ten when it came out - it would have permanently traumatised me if I'd seen it then.

 

[Cowley]

Yeah. It was very well researched, and the understated docu-drama style, looking way into the future, made it incredibly hard-hitting. However hard it is to stomach, it's a masterpiece.

I didn't see it until around 2003. I was ten when it came out - it would have permanently traumatised me if I'd seen it then.

Same here @Journeyman. I remember my parents talking about ‘When the Wind Blows’ around the same time but never mentioning
‘Threads’.
I watched it as an adult and it left a deep impression, but I’m not sure if my parents watched it when it came out (must ask my dad actually).
The truth back then would have been that life just wouldn’t have been worth carrying on with if the worst had happened in my opinion.

 

[randyrippley]

In the film Threads I recall Crewe was attacked by a groundburst-presumably to destroy the railway junction.

Mistaken identity- the filmmakers thought Roll Royce made jet engines there.....in fact it was the car factory
Derby should have been the target.

 

[Journeyman]

Mistaken identity- the filmmakers thought Roll Royce made jet engines there.....in fact it was the car factory
Derby should have been the target.

Well, after a nuclear attack, I can't imagine the market for Silver Spirits would have been too healthy...

 

[MarkyT]

Mistaken identity- the filmmakers thought Roll Royce made jet engines there.....in fact it was the car factory
Derby should have been the target.

Perhaps deliberate misinformation in case any Soviet agents were watching!

 

[21C101]

Perhaps deliberate misinformation in case any Soviet agents were watching!

It was all in the Best Possible Taste. Lets B......

 

[WessexEclectic]

I watched that film and it clearly demonstrated the futility of a nuclear war in the most realistic way possible, it actually influenced politicians in Russia and America to start talking about descalating nuclear tensions.

Supposedly, it was Regan watching the American version (The Day After) in the White House that had a profound influence - Regan allegedly suggesting complete bilateral disarmament to Gorbachev in a private meeting at one of the SALT talks.

You do wonder with what degrees of seriousness other countries/companies took planning for the end of the world compared to Glasgow...

 

[squizzler]

If there was a neutron bomb attack the railways would look like April all over again.

On the positive side, the 3+2 chair arrangement in the new class 320s would be quite spacious to the race of sentient Danish mink that I thought would evolve to replace humans after we were all wiped out by a new strain of Covid.