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GB / US
1976
1hr 44mins
Dir: Charles Jarrott
Starring: Alastair Sim and Prunella Scales
Three children attempt to rescue pit ponies from a slaughterhouse in Yorkshire
This Walt Disney family drama features a scene where there is an attempt to load the ponies onto wagons in a railway yard, which was filmed on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. The scene used Oakworth station, playing the part of ‘Emsdale’, and former Manchester Ship Canal Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T No.31 Hamburg was the locomotive on the train.
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