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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 3 (July 1, 1929)

“Shooting” Railway Scenes for the “Talkies.”

“Shooting” Railway Scenes for the “Talkies.”

No train in all the world has attained such great fame as the “Flying Scotsman,” the daily “crack” express of the L. & N.E. railway between London and Edinburgh. The “Flying Scotsman” is really its own publicity agent, but, in these days of severe competition, no railway can afford to ignore any possible means of bringing its services before the notice of the public. For this reason the L. & N.E. authorities have gladly given every assistance to a film-producing house desirous of producing a real, live, railway drama based upon British scenes.

A prize-winning english railway station. Floral display at Barrow Station, on the Cheshire Lines (L.M.S. and L. and N.E. Joint Railway).

A prize-winning english railway station.
Floral display at Barrow Station, on the Cheshire Lines (L.M.S. and L. and N.E. Joint Railway).

As a result of this co-operation between the railway and the “movie” people, the “Flying Scotsman” now figures in the first British railway fiction film ever shot. The majority of the scenes in this new super film are being taken in and around the King's Cross terminal. The scenery on either side of the line between London and Edinburgh provides the film's background. “Joan Crow,” daughter of a driver of the “Flying Scotsman,” is the heroine of the drama, and a thrilling close-up shows a fight on the very footplate itself of the “Flying Scotsman” locomotive. The picture is of the “talking” type, and included in the sounds reproduced, will be the roar of the wheels on the rails, the hiss of escaping steam, the beat of the pistons, and the pulsating gasp of the open firebox. There is a big future for film publicity in the railway world. To railwaymen especially, this unique “Flying Scotsman” thriller should prove of rare appeal.