The Railway Children (Film)

[Sparky]

Jan 2, 2020 16:03:50 GMT Villain said:

Jan 2, 2020 13:06:06 GMT Sparky said:

Could he be the "Ulsterman"?!!

You ain't seen me right...?  .

Apologies for continuing the thread drift!

Villain 

"The Great Railway Children Robbery" would make an interesting film.

It'd be a bit like Bugsy Malone me thinks!!!

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Never seen the latest version, will have to get off Amazon, I’m intrigued now..

[Three Litre]

Jan 5, 2020 15:32:46 GMT @getcarter said:

Never seen the latest version, will have to get off Amazon, I’m intrigued now..

I think the new version is called The Bus Replacement Children.

[Sparky]

Jan 5, 2020 15:57:35 GMT Three Litre said:

Jan 5, 2020 15:32:46 GMT @getcarter said:

Never seen the latest version, will have to get off Amazon, I’m intrigued now..

I think the new version is called The Bus Replacement Children.

The sequel to that would be "Standing Room Only Children"

[DI Alex Drake]

Jan 5, 2020 15:32:46 GMT @getcarter said:

Never seen the latest version, will have to get off Amazon, I’m intrigued now..

Let us know what you think! Hard to believe even that is 20 years old now 

[Nightfly]

Dec 31, 2019 13:35:22 GMT Sparky said:

I was last up there working on the "Great Train Robbery" a few years back - it was p*****g it down, middle of winter, freezing cold and a Million Miles away from the summer scenes in "Railway Children".

Small world - I work in one of the locations used in the "Great Train Robbery" production and no doubt bumped into you at some point in the corridors (there have been several productions over the years and usually someone wants to run cables through or stick a lighting rig in our office etc).  I recall one of the young runners in a panic because the director had asked her to get name badges the for robbers that had to be in an authentic 60s typewriter font and I must have looked like the oldest codger in the building who would know which Word font would look the most accurate 

As for The Railway Children, I think it might have been one of the first films I ever saw at a cinema.  Beautifully shot, although the special effects on the landslip scene were a little suspect !

[Sparky]

Apr 20, 2021 16:10:01 GMT Nightfly said:

Dec 31, 2019 13:35:22 GMT Sparky said:

I was last up there working on the "Great Train Robbery" a few years back - it was p*****g it down, middle of winter, freezing cold and a Million Miles away from the summer scenes in "Railway Children".

Small world - I work in one of the locations used in the "Great Train Robbery" production and no doubt bumped into you at some point in the corridors (there have been several productions over the years and usually someone wants to run cables through or stick a lighting rig in our office etc).  I recall one of the young runners in a panic because the director had asked her to get name badges the for robbers that had to be in an authentic 60s typewriter font and I must have looked like the oldest codger in the building who would know which Word font would look the most accurate 

As for The Railway Children, I think it might have been one of the first films I ever saw at a cinema.  Beautifully shot, although the special effects on the landslip scene were a little suspect !

I would have been the one running big cables, in my waterproofs.

The runners got a little bit of hammer on that - as we'd convinced them that it was our Union Rules that we had to be kept stocked with cups of tea and jaffa cakes - they had a runner constantly checking that we had enough jaffa cakes. By the end of the job the cable trunks were full of boxes of them.

One equipment hire company phoned me up and asked why the spare lamp boxes were full of jaffa cakes... (After they had eaten them).