PORTRAIT OF CLARE

GB
1950
1hr 40mins
Dir: Lance Comfort
Starring: Margaret Johnston and Richard Todd

A woman looks back on her three marriages in flashback format

This disappointingly poor drama features a couple of railway scenes. There is a particularly fine shot of Aston Rowant station on the Watlington branch with a local train hauled by an ex-GWR 5700-series 0-6-0PT, and a sequence portraying a railway journey to London that involves a passing shot of an ex-LMS Class 2P 4-4-0 on the Midland Main Line.

A branch train arrives into Aston Rowant in the hands of an ex-GWR Pannier Tank
Looking the other way now and passengers are on the platform with the goods shed beyond.