Railway children at the nrm

[Sandra6]

We went to York railway museum yesterday to see theatre Royal's adaptation of this classic and it was fantastic!
You are seated either side of a platform - the stage - and the train effects, sounds, lights and steam are brilliant. They even shunt a real train in!!
I cried, more than once.
You should all go.

 

[Drago]

Jenny Agutter?

 

[swee'pea99]

Yorkshire?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Jenny Agutter?

Getting on a bit now ...........

 

[classic33]

Yorkshire?

Nay lad

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You are seated either side of a platform - the stage - and the train effects, sounds, lights and steam are brilliant. They even shunt a real train in!!
I cried, more than once.
You should all go.

It's the GWR Pannier locomotive that was in the original film (not the inferior remake) that's used (or it was as pictured in the 'Yorkshire Post' the other morning.
That's the locomotive that stopped by Bobbi, when the landslip took place
http://kwvr.co.uk/steam-train/great-western-railway-0-6-0pt-pannier-tank-no-5775/

Terry Pratchett satirised the children, in his last book 'Raising Steam', when they tried to cause a railway disaster

As for tears, I'll freely admit that the station sequence towards the end of the (original) film causes me a moist eye, as it did just now finding the clip

 

[Milkfloat]

I saw it in London earlier this year with the kids. Loved it, a great production.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

As for tears, I'll freely admit that the station sequence towards the end of the (original) film causes me a moist eye, as it did just now finding the clip

Wouldn't even get that effect from the clag of a class 37 these days (although you might be coughing and spluttering and have runny eyes, so.... Umm.... Actually, maybe you would!).

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Personally, I want to see the NRM's newly preserved Eurostar Powercar (3308) once they have restored it for display.
The HAP too!



I'll get my anorak.....

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Jenny Agutter?

American Werewolf In London......................

She played the mother (Dinah Sheridans role) in the remake, of The Railway Children

Yes, I too, remember 'Walkabout'

 

[ufkacbln]

Jenny Agutter?

Worked for MI5 last I heard

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Aren't we all, 26

Not me Rocky - I'm going for immortality

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I'm imagining that you look like Lionel

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Yikes - I'm beginning to think death is a better option

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

Lionel Blair was the master of Give Us A Clue. Who could fail to be impressed at his attempt to finish off Two Gentlemen Of Verona within 2 minutes.

 

[F70100]

Sadly his attempt to pull off 12 Angry Men wasn't quite so successful.