DATE WITH A DREAM

GB
1948
55mins
Dir: Dicky Leeman
Starring: Terry-Thomas and Jeannie Carson

Four old friends reunite and form a successful nightclub act

This short vaudeville comedy features a montage sequence early on that includes a brief shot of passengers boarding a train at an unknown Southern station, and a glimpse of the street level entrance to East Brixton station in London. The station closed in 1976.

Passengers are captured boarding a train in this stock footage that appears to be from somewhere on the Southern
This is Barrington Road, SW9, and the entrance to the old East Brixton railway station is through the ornate archway in the background. The railway line runs across the bridge at the top of the picture.