Bluebell Railway General Discussion

The best comment on there so far is someone saying it's a Western Region 4-6-0 so they could have used anything including a Manor and a Castle and it would have looked the same!

Cheers,

PLP

 

Maybe not anything…

 

Is that a King?

 

Its **king ugly
Pat

 

Hopefully they have negotiated a suitably daft hire rate with the production company that it ensures its next overhaul is funded- the cost and waste in TV and film is ridiculous so they will hopefully get a good bite at the cherry.

Chris

 

The Bluebell have shared this link to the BBC on their Facebook page.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles...kEKOagzAqEsPkxG5al_aem_oPvyjt5PjusF8FffC-GwXA

Says the loco will spend 6 months of the year filming and then return to the Bluebell. Also says a team from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre will supervise the loco during filming and ensure it's maintained properly.

I did see a few weeks back that they are building a Kings Cross Platform 9 3/4 set at the studios, but not sure if they intend to use a railway for other scenes involving the loco.

 

3 mk1s have been bought for the filming work as well. 2 SKs and 1 TSO.

 

Will they survive the filming?

 

Markoneus Evanesco.

 

Do you know who's, out of curiosity?

Tom

 

No idea but there is a place in the N.W. that has a lot of spare maroon Mk1's

 

It's good to know that they still want to use physical stock, rather than generating it all with CGI+AI.

 

I agree, it's great they actually chose to use a real locomotive and carriages, in this day and age they could just have used CGI.