BETWEEN TWO WOMEN
GB
2000
1hr 32mins
Dir: Steven Woodcock
Starring: Barbara Marten and Andrina Carroll
A housewife forms an intense relationship with a female schoolteacher
This drama was set in 1950s Northern England and makes excellent use of both the East Lancashire and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railways.
The East Lancashire Railway scenes were filmed at Bury Bolton Street and feature ex-LMS ‘Black Five’ 4-6-0 No.45337, BR Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 No.46441 and a rare thing in the form of the unique two-car Derby Lightweight BMU (vehicles 79998+79999). The Keighley & Worth Valley scenes were shot largely at Damems and Haworth stations and feature BR Standard 2-6-4T No.80002, ex-LMS 8F 2-8-0 No.48431, ex-LNER Class J27 0-6-0 No.65894 and one of the former Manchester Ship Canal Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0Ts (probably No.31 Hamburg).
*MILLIONS
GB
2005
1hr 38mins
Dir: Danny Boyle
Starring: Axel Etal and Lewis McGibbon
Two young boys find a million pounds in stolen cash and must use it before the adoption of the euro makes the cash redundant
This comedy-drama has some really good contemporary railway scenes. The two young lads, played by Axel Etal and Lewis McGibbon, live with
their dad close to a railway line, and there are a huge number of time-lapsed abstract shots of passing traffic on the West Coast Main Line including: Class 87 and Class 90 electric hauled passenger services, a rare glimpse of a passenger service hauled by two-tone green heritage liveried Class 47 No.47851 Traction Magazine with the DVT behind, HST’s, a Class 390 ‘Pendolino’ EMU, a Class 220 ‘Voyager ‘DEMU, a Class 37 hauled freight consisting of covered car carriers and a Class 90-hauled Freightliner. Other passing trains include a Class 66 hauled freight consisting of Ferrywagons and a distant shot of a two-car Class 150/1 DMU. The opening sequence has the boys cycling beneath a railway viaduct as a Freightliner and an HST pass overhead. The sequence involving the robbery of a mail train used a rake of three GUV parcels vans top-and-tailed by a pair of Class 37 diesels, No’s.37669 and 37695. These scenes were filmed at Liverpool Lime Street station and on the preserved East Lancashire Railway. Another Class 90 and a Class 156 ‘Sprinter’ DMU are discernible in the scenes at Lime Street station.