Annoying Railway Mistakes in Films

[whole diary]

[thetrout]

Perhaps this could turn into a continuous thread similar to the news article thread.

I will start with a recent one.

The Imitation Game. The scene of the children boarding the British Rail Mark 1 Carriages in the year 1939... Hauled by a Steam Engine. Only a true railway buff would spot the Overhead Electrification Wires and know they weren't installed on the West Coast Main Line till the mid - late 1950s...

Did I also see a Diesel Train for half a second also that looked surprisingly like a DMU^▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) towards the end of the film or did I imagine that?

[chuffed]

A fellow filmgoer also made a comment ( which I will let him post) about the evacuation scene, (for a moment i was muddling this thread up with the 'poo bus') but it didn't spoil my overall enjoyment of the film. I was watching it for the second time in two days !
However said filmgoer did spot (despite his coffee shop assumed name ) that the Bedford coach seen bringing Joan to Bletchley Park. is the same one hired  every time a 1930s scene is called for. I am sure it brought Helen Herriot to Darrowby in All Creatures Great and Small several times.

[thetrout]

The use of Mark 1 Stock which was constructed in the 1950s was another mistake.

As for the London Underground Makeshift Bunker... The folks sat resting against the conductor rails... Errrr that's not very smart!

[trainer]

What I spotted was a Standard Class sticker on a compartment window. Should have been Second or Third.

[eightf48544]

The classic to my mind is one of the Mission Impossibles where they fly a helicopter over a TGV^▸ (Train a Grande Vitesse) without O/H getting in the way.

[rogerpatenall]

they used to drag tgvs several times a day between Nantes and La Baule. I think it is now electrified, but not sure.

[stuving]

they used to drag tgvs several times a day between Nantes and La Baule. I think it is now electrified, but not sure.

The line through to Le Croisic was electrified in 1986, just before the TGV^▸ (Train a Grande Vitesse) service began. Before that "classic" trains did change loco at Nantes. Maybe there were some summer specials or demo runs done in advance of that?

Loco-hauling TGVs has never been part of the general plan. However, there was at least one exception - where local politicians with enough clout (or money) were suffering severe TGV envy. From 2001 to 2008 this was done from Nantes to Les Sables d'Olonne, but that needed specially modified locomotives with a suitable coupling for TGVs.

[rogerpatenall]

You are right - I meant Les Sables d'