WIDE BOY

GB
1952
1hr 07mins
Dir: Ken Hughes
Starring: Sydney Tafler and Susan Shaw

A black marketeer becomes embroiled in blackmail and murder

This crime thriller has a climatic scene filmed on a railway bridge at night. Two trains are captured during this sequence, which used Westbourne Park Passage bridge across the Great Western main line west of Paddington. One is of an express with an unidentifiable locomotive at the helm, and the second shows a former GWR ‘Pannier Tank’ on a goods train. Neither have been filmed from the bridge, and both are likely stock shots ‘unearthed’ from somewhere else.

An express passes beneath the camera in the hands of an unknown locomotive
This is somewhat clearer, and it shows an ex-GWR ‘Pannier Tank’ running bunker first on a freight
I have added this shot as it is central to the plot. This is Westbourne Park Passage, crossing the tracks west of Paddington.