SUMMERLAND

GB
2020
1hr 39mins
Dir: Jessica Swale
Starring: Gemma Arterton and Lucas Bond

A reclusive writer is forced to bond with a young boy evacuee who has been entrusted to her care

This wartime drama was supported through development and production by the BFI using funds from the National Lottery, but it met with a somewhat mixed reception. It features the usual period scenes that were shot on the Bluebell Railway at Horsted Keynes and some less familiar scenes using Brighton station. No locomotives feature at either location.  

Although we see no locomotives in this film, there are some much less familiar views of Horsted Keynes station. Here, Gemma Arterton walks alongside the station with the double-faced platforms 4 and 5 behind her.
A somewhat unfamiliar elevated view of the station with a train in platform 3. Carriage 7598 is a regular on screen.
This is all we get to see of the London train, the locomotive of which is all but obscured by the vegetation of the cutting on the approach to Horsted Keynes.
As Dixie Egerickx enters the station via a side gate, a train of Southern Railway coaching stock is standing in platform 5
Tom Courtenay and Dixie Egerickx watch the train depart in this magnificently atmospheric shot
Brighton station was briefly turned into a 1940s London terminus for the purposes of filming. The carriage just visible in the platform on the right is a CGI addition.
Another period shot of Brighton station
Gemma Arterton in 1940s attire onboard a train on the Bluebell Railway