| "Rails into Ghost Town" Posted by Mark A at 17:42, 13th December 2025 |     |
"Rails into Ghost Town" being Chib Thorpe's notorious film account of his visit to Woodford Halse from Banbury in the dying days of the Great Central.
A brief glimpse of something before he heads off... what, at 1:16, has left the row of similar shaped things and is flying along on its own to who knows where? What's going on with that?
Mark
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-rails-into-ghost-town-1966-online
| Re: "Rails into Ghost Town" Posted by ChrisB at 19:16, 13th December 2025 | |
Thanks for finding this - my local long-gone branch....
| Re: "Rails into Ghost Town" Posted by Mark A at 13:33, 14th December 2025 | |
Its structures (occasionally) repurposed in surprising and popular ways.
https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/cottage/Cotswolds-Northamptonshire-Coton-Fm/The-Tunnel-at-Bridge-Lake-Farm-and-Fishery-1132709.html
Not, though the series of three bridges towards the top of the climb out of the Cherwell valley, structures allegedly nicknamed by loco crew as 'Faith', 'Hope' and 'Charity'.
Surprised the staff featured in the film are so prepared to smile for the camera.
Mark
