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CNTravellerEver since the Lumière brothers’ 50-second ‘Arrival of a Train at Ciotat Station’ amazed and terrified its audience in 1896, cinema has loved the railway. No wonder: trains make an enclosed stage set, a built-in plot driver and, with all that moving scenery, a meta-replica of the cinema experience itself. And, unlike a hike to Middle Earth or a journey through space and time, many of the movies’ great locomotive moments are available to us all to share. Here are some to try ...
One has a
GWR▸ headline name ... one was recorded on the West Somerset railway (in
BR▸ days) to represent Liverpool to London !!