GB 1949 1hr 08mins Dir: Oswald Mitchell Starring: Henry Oscar and Gwyneth Vaughan
Murder and intrigue break the resolve of a respectable family following the arrival of a strange spiritualist
This second feature gothic thriller has a scene where John Stuart drives to a station to meet a train. Filmed at the ever popular Bricket Wood, the St. Albans branch train arrives hauled by a BR Class 1P 2-4-2T. The film was released in the US under the alternative title of Temptations.
This is the forecourt outside Bricket Wood station on the St. Albans Abbey branch from Watford Junction. The 1940s Chevrolet Fleetline is quite exotic for rural Hertfordshire!!
John Stuart on the platform at Bricket Wood
The train arrives hauled by a Class 1P 2-4-2T. By this stage the loco is a BR machine, the 1P classification having been given to it by the LMS in 1923. The loco began life as an LNWR 5ft 6in Class tank, and of the 160 built between 1890 and 1897, 43 were absorbed into BR stock in 1948.
