Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Steam World

    PLATFORM 2: “I KNOW WHERE I CAN GET AN ENGINE ANY TIME I WANT.”

    Aug 20, 2021 3 minutes

    So says Old Dan, in The Titfield Thunderbolt, after the line’s regular ‘14XX’ 0-4-2TNo. 1401, and Wisbech & Upwell carriage, have been wrecked by the rival bus operators. He and co-conspirator Mr. Valentine (played by Stanley Holloway) set out to steal a replacement. Filmed at Oxford shed using No. 1462, the replacement locomotive comes to grief with a large tree on its unorthodox way to Titfield.

    The filming, in 1951, with

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Steam World

    Steam World3 min read
    Diesels? In Steam World?
    Yes but before you start cancelling your subscriptions, let us explain… British railway history divides very neatly into clear and distinct periods: the pioneering days, pre-Grouping, ‘Big Four’, British Railways pre-1968, BR post-steam and privatisa
    Steam World4 min read
    Call Attention
    John Dagley-Morris sent me this photograph and I could hardly resist a picture of one of my favourite railway locations. Says John, “May I submit this photograph by my late brother Richard? He would have been aged only 16 when he took it on August 26
    Steam World12 min read
    Railrover Remembered
    It was the beginning of that momentous decade, the 1960s. I had never ventured into North Eastern Region territory but seven years of spotting at the southern end of the East Coast Main Line meant that I’d seen many of that region’s larger locomotive

    Related