A SEVERED HEAD

GB
1970
1hr 38mins
Dir: Dick Clement
Starring: Claire Bloom and Richard Attenborough

An upper-class wine merchant having an affair discovers his wife is playing the same game

This bizarre drama is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Iris Murdoch and features a short scene at London Paddington station. Blue and grey-liveried Mk1 coaching stock is visible but no locomotives are present.

Ian Holm stands among the passengers on the concourse at Paddington, with the Praed Street exit behind
This is platforms 8 and 9 at Paddington. The BRUTE trollies on the right are sadly a thing of the past.