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The Bluebell Railway on Film & TV


Waving at the Train (c) Carlton Television Ltd

 

The Bluebell is in frequent demand as a Film and Television location. Here we list some of our recent appearances on screen, also including advertising and fashion shoots.

Go to the Bluebell Railway Film Location Services page for contact details and more information on what we can offer.

 

Photo (right): The Railway Children waving at a Bluebell Railway train in 1999.
(with thanks to, and © Carlton TV)


Filming date

Title

Details

Stars

First showing

November 2006

Subterranean:
A social history of The Tube

Arena film for BBC Four Tube Night.
Loco: Birch Grove, Metropolitan Railway carriages, Horsted Keynes station and Sharpthorne Tunnel

 

March 2007 ?

October 2006

 

Advert for Broadband
Filmed at Leamland Bridge

 

 

September 2006

Nuclear Secrets - Superspy

BBC TV documentary, WW2-period.
Horsted Keynes station and railway cottage, Sheffield Park loco yard

Marco Hofschneider

January 2007

Summer 2006

 

Vogue magazine - winter fashions

 

 

Summer 2006

The Ruby in the Smoke

BBC TV drama - part of The Sally Lockhart Mysteries (Phillip Pullman).
Locos: SECR O1; Carriages: Metropolitan and SR Maunsell; Horsted Keynes station

Julie Walters, Billie Piper

Christmas 2006

March 2006

Miss Potter

Film based on life of Beatrix Potter.
Locos: U-class 1838 and Dukedog; Coaches: SR Vintage set and Maunsells; Horsted Keynes station as "Euston"

Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor

January 2007

 
We have a series of web pages devoted to the 1999 filming of the Carlton TV version of The Railway Children.

Other major films involving the Bluebell over the years have been:
"Wind in the Willows", "102 Dalmations", John Betjeman's "Metro-Land", Ken Russell's "Mahler" and "Lisztomania", together with major TV dramas such as "The Young Visiters" and "Station Jim" for the BBC.

Some of the feature films shot on the Bluebell are on sale on DVD from our shop at Sheffield Park, or on-line.
 


 
The Bluebell is in frequent demand as a Film and Television location.

Go to the Bluebell Railway Film Location Services page for contact details and more information on what we can offer.

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