*SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS
GB
1974
1hr 32mins
Dir: Claude Whatham
Starring: Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser
The adventures of four children in the Lake District in 1929
This family adventure is based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Arthur Ransome. The start of the film depicts railway journey scenes that
were filmed on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway with a train hauled by one of the line’s LMS Fairburn Class 4MT 2-6-4Ts. There is also a shot of the frontage of Haverthwaite station.
*WITHOUT A CLUE
GB
1988
1hr 47mins
Dir: Thom Eberhardt
Starring: Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine
In reality, Sherlock Holmes is a mediocre detective and it is Watson who is the real sleuth
This interesting comedy is a parody on the real Sherlock Holmes stories and features some scenes filmed on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway, including Lakeside station itself, with ex-Manchester Ship Canal Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T No.31 Hamburg from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on a train of two Metropolitan Railway coaches from the Vintage Carriages Trust at Ingrow. Despite this, however, there is also a scene filmed onboard a Mk1 coach, presumably also filmed on the Lakeside & Haverthwaite.