Evidently 44781, which I had thought had been restored and preserved at Carnforth. Must have been thinking of 44871!Wasn't one of the 15 Guinea Special locos used as a film prop and then scrapped?
Spoiler alert.....The "Fench" pacific has soared to its end in Derbyshire.....there is a video on "you tube".
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“Take 2. We forgot to put the film in the camera!”
Now THAT's a bad SPAD!
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Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.
Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.
Well I hope they clear up the mess.
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.
When factory chimneys get demolished they usually give a couple of last puffs.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!
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!
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).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.
No it still exists and is now on the Mid Hants Railway.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.
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.!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?
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.Did we ever get to the bottom of who actually built this?
That’s an enormous amount of skilled work.