A journey on the non-stop express from London to Edinburgh.A journey on the non-stop express from London to Edinburgh.A journey on the non-stop express from London to Edinburgh.
- Director
- Writer
- Stars
Alan Wheatley
- Spoken by
- (voice)
Howard Marion-Crawford
- Spoken by
- (voice)
- (as Howard Marion Crawford)
Thomas Arnott
- Self - Stationmaster
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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- ConnectionsFeatured in Steam Days: A Tale of Two Scotsmen (1986)
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A Heroic Epic
No, it's not a newspaper published by Sir Walter Raleigh. It's the non-stop train from King's Cross in London to Waverly in Edinburgh, with food, drink, cigars and even poetry, all in six and a half hours, or twenty minutes on the movie screen.
When I refer to poetry, I'm not jesting; the narration is written in a variety of poetic forms, including limericks.
In the United States, this would have been an industrial film, meant to advertise and inform an audience, particularly for a small group of specialists. Here it's an advertising effort, pure and simple, meant to extol the train, its reliability, its luxury, and the fact that it will get you where you're going, and on time.
When I refer to poetry, I'm not jesting; the narration is written in a variety of poetic forms, including limericks.
In the United States, this would have been an industrial film, meant to advertise and inform an audience, particularly for a small group of specialists. Here it's an advertising effort, pure and simple, meant to extol the train, its reliability, its luxury, and the fact that it will get you where you're going, and on time.
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- boblipton
- Jun 21, 2020
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Color
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