Trains in the Movies/TV/Ads
Craig Haber
appearance of trains in movies.
Amongst other things, it says:
"In fact the film acknowledged by many as the world's first feature, 'The
Story of the Kelly Gang' included rail scened shot at what is now Rosanna
in Melbourne." (Wow, right near my home!)
How about some sort of list of the usage of *Australian* trains in
Movies, TV shows, ads and the like.
Here's my beginning:
Rosanna in "The Story of the Kelly Gang (as above)"
R761 stars in a new ad for some Pasta Sauce (looks like it was filmed at
Newport Workshops)
K160 in the "Holler for a Marshall" ad (I'm told they collided with the
car on the first take, and had to make the ad by reversing the train through
the crossing and reversing the car onto the crossing and then playing the
whole lot backwards)
K160 and Maldon Station renamed Cooma in Channel 9 series "Snowy"
K160 again briefly in Channel 9's "The Man from Snowy River", and then
there's the replica they built as well. Can anyone tell us more about
this? The track in the show appears to be on 'real' rail alignment - did
they relay part of the line somewhere near Trentham (the station appeared
in the show also).
K190 Appeared in "The Lighthorsemen", and also in "Phar Lap". The V/Line
news article "On the Silver Screen" Oct 87 issues said K190 also "raced
to confront the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan", but I think that must have been
a different movie to the one at Rosanna!
BPR's V1209 featured in an episode of the kids TV show "Kelly", in which
one "mature" bloke was driving AND firing, and had a heart attack at the
controls (not surprising!).
"Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train" was filmed on the M.Ex/S.Ex in 1986.
K153 was in an ad for lipstick (of all things!), where the train passed
through a level crossing where a girl in an convertable is applying her
lipstick, wherupon the train driver reversed the train and invited her to
go across first!
I recall 3801 was in an ad here a few years back, but can't remember what
the ad was for.
Daryl Braithwaite's film clip to the song "Rise" had some V/Line trains
going past in the background, including 'double headed' DRC's.
Can you add to this collection?
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David Bromage
>R761 stars in a new ad for some Pasta Sauce (looks like it was filmed at
>Newport Workshops)
It was filmed inside the West Block.
>K190 Appeared in "The Lighthorsemen", and also in "Phar Lap". The V/Line
>news article "On the Silver Screen" Oct 87 issues said K190 also "raced
>to confront the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan", but I think that must have been
>a different movie to the one at Rosanna!
K153 was in the final cut of The Lighthorsemen. The scene was first filmed
in the Goulburn Valley using K190 but the helicopter crashed destroying
the film. It was filmed again out near Yarra Glen a few weeks later with
K153.
K153 also appeared in an episode of Mission Impossible. She was stripped
of numberplates and had some vaguely asian lettering added in various places.
>K153 was in an ad for lipstick (of all things!), where the train passed
>through a level crossing where a girl in an convertable is applying her
>lipstick, wherupon the train driver reversed the train and invited her to
>go across first!
An interesting but of trivia: the VR driver who was really driving K153
in the ad was also driving V1209 in Kelly.
K190 appeared in a beer commercial about 15 years ago. She also appeared
in "Death of a Soldier". It was an interesting scene in which American
and Australian soldiers manage to start a gun battle at a station.
K184 was in "Ride a Wild Pony" back in the 1970s.
D3.639 was in a mini-series (the name of which I can't remember) about
Italian prisoners of war held in Australia.
One of Peter Russel-Clarke's many cheese commercials was filmed aboard the
Melbourne Limited hauled by R766.
In recent news, a T class was used in making a commercial for a Korean
company only a few weeks ago. The scene involved a goods train stopping
to pick up an attractive and rather scantily dressed hitchhiker. Another
part of the same ad campaign, yet to be filmed, is to invlove K183.
Cheers
David
rgo...@monash.edu.au
>From: s931...@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (Craig Haber)
>Subject: Trains in the Movies/TV/Ads
>Date: 27 Jul 1995 12:28:23 GMT
>There's an article in the Herald-Sun (Thurs 27/7) featuring the
>appearance of trains in movies.
>Amongst other things, it says:
>"In fact the film acknowledged by many as the world's first feature, 'The
>Story of the Kelly Gang' included rail scened shot at what is now Rosanna
>in Melbourne." (Wow, right near my home!)
>How about some sort of list of the usage of *Australian* trains in
>Movies, TV shows, ads and the like.
>Here's my beginning:
>Rosanna in "The Story of the Kelly Gang (as above)"
>R761 stars in a new ad for some Pasta Sauce (looks like it was filmed at
>Newport Workshops)
>K160 in the "Holler for a Marshall" ad (I'm told they collided with the
>car on the first take, and had to make the ad by reversing the train through
>the crossing and reversing the car onto the crossing and then playing the
>whole lot backwards)
>K160 and Maldon Station renamed Cooma in Channel 9 series "Snowy"
>K160 again briefly in Channel 9's "The Man from Snowy River", and then
>there's the replica they built as well. Can anyone tell us more about
>this? The track in the show appears to be on 'real' rail alignment - did
>they relay part of the line somewhere near Trentham (the station appeared
>in the show also).
>K190 Appeared in "The Lighthorsemen", and also in "Phar Lap". The V/Line
>news article "On the Silver Screen" Oct 87 issues said K190 also "raced
>to confront the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan", but I think that must have been
>a different movie to the one at Rosanna!
>BPR's V1209 featured in an episode of the kids TV show "Kelly", in which
>one "mature" bloke was driving AND firing, and had a heart attack at the
>controls (not surprising!).
>"Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train" was filmed on the M.Ex/S.Ex in 1986.
>K153 was in an ad for lipstick (of all things!), where the train passed
>through a level crossing where a girl in an convertable is applying her
>lipstick, wherupon the train driver reversed the train and invited her to
>go across first!
>I recall 3801 was in an ad here a few years back, but can't remember what
BOB BACKWAY
>K160 again briefly in Channel 9's "The Man from Snowy River", and then
>there's the replica they built as well. Can anyone tell us more about
>this? The track in the show appears to be on 'real' rail alignment - did
>they relay part of the line somewhere near Trentham (the station appeared
>in the show also).
A couple of weeks ago they had a loco T 94? which my Power Parade said was at
the AHRS museum but the credits thanked the Central Highlands Tourist Railway.
The loco didn't really look like it was under its own power to me and may of
been discreetly helped from the rear. It also had no gaurd, just a heap of
gold in the van:-)
>K190 Appeared in "The Lighthorsemen", and also in "Phar Lap". The V/Line
>news article "On the Silver Screen" Oct 87 issues said K190 also "raced
>to confront the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan", but I think that must have been
>a different movie to the one at Rosanna!
This may have been the remake in the 70,s "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger.
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rgo...@monash.edu.au
>There's an article in the Herald-Sun (Thurs 27/7) featuring the
>appearance of trains in movies.
>How about some sort of list of the usage of *Australian* trains in
>Movies, TV shows, ads and the like.
Puffing Billy's 8A starred as Wombat (a nickname it still keeps) in the ABC
series 'Come Midnight Monday'.
For those who have recently visited the Rialto observation tower in Melbourne
and have seen their new 'movie' will also see Puffing Billy. An interesting
story to this bit of film: I was rostered on as Guard when they filmed the
train crossing the trestle bridge. It was a special train filled with local
schoolkids. The camera was suspended on a wire across the valley and was
supposed to be able to pivot in all directions.
We were about to leave Belgrave for the bridge when word came through that the
camera wasn't working. So as not to disapoint the kids, we took them to
Menzies Creek and back. It was then planned to film again the next morning so
I again signed on as Guard at 7.00am for the early trip. This time they
decided to send the loco down to the bridge light engine to practise. After a
few runs of setting back up into the cutting, getting an all clear and then
making a run, the loco steamed out of the cutting only to find the camera in
the wrong place, ie right in front of the engine. Destruction of the $30 000
camera resulted (and I mean destruction!). The film crew came back four months
later and sucessfully filmed the footage you now see!
Just to continue with the PBR theme (hey it's my hobby), last year an episode
of A Country Practice featured the railway, with 12A supposedly being restored
by a local gentleman and run on the Wandon Valley railway before it was torn
up. Naturally, he hit his head on something and the train was out of control
until it was rescued by one of the stars on horseback. Another story about
this show was the response of the producers when told how much a loco and crew
would cost for the filming. They were adament that they only needed the loco,
saying that if we could 'fire it up' for them, they'd use it during the day
and return it to us in the evening! How's that for a grip on reality!
See ya
Richard Ogilvie
rgo...@eng3.eng.monash.edu.au
Craig Haber
>>Puffing Billy's 8A starred as Wombat (a nickname it still keeps) in the ABC
>>series 'Come Midnight Monday'.
"Come Midnight Monday" was written by David Burke (also wrote "Kings of
the Iron Horse") who owns his own loco - ex NSW 3013.
>In modern day series, Sunbury is often used as "Mt Thomas" in Blue Heelers.
I think Woodend was also used once - there was a brick station in one
episode (Sunbury is Timber construction)
David Bromage
>In article Craig Haber writes:
>>K160 again briefly in Channel 9's "The Man from Snowy River", and then
>>there's the replica they built as well. Can anyone tell us more about
>>this? The track in the show appears to be on 'real' rail alignment - did
>>they relay part of the line somewhere near Trentham (the station appeared
>>in the show also).
>A couple of weeks ago they had a loco T 94? which my Power Parade said was at
>the AHRS museum but the credits thanked the Central Highlands Tourist Railway.
>The loco didn't really look like it was under its own power to me and may of
>been discreetly helped from the rear. It also had no gaurd, just a heap of
>gold in the van:-)
This beast was a mockup built on a goods wagon frame. It was powered by
the "tender" which was actually an RT rail tractor with the cab cut off
and a tender built on. The sound was dubbed, rather inaccurately. You
can hear the sound of a Westinghouse cross compound compressor but cannot
see one on the "locomotive". The vehicle was fully braked, you can
actually see "PV 10-94" on the frame. Must have been 1894. :)
>>K190 Appeared in "The Lighthorsemen", and also in "Phar Lap". The V/Line
>>news article "On the Silver Screen" Oct 87 issues said K190 also "raced
>>to confront the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan", but I think that must have been
>>a different movie to the one at Rosanna!
>This may have been the remake in the 70,s "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger.
What a forgettable film THAT was!
Cheers
David
John Abraham Cleverdon
: K160 again briefly in Channel 9's "The Man from Snowy River", and then
: this? The track in the show appears to be on 'real' rail alignment - did
: they relay part of the line somewhere near Trentham (the station appeared
: in the show also).
The Central Highlands Tourist Railway helped out here. The replica is
supposed to be of T94 (which is at the ARHS North Williamstown museum).
AFAIK, it is built on a tractor body.
Some of the filming was at the "Twin Dams" site, near Blackwood - the
location of "Paterson's Ridge". Another segment (from the July 16 episode)
was filmed in the Wombat Forest, out of Daylesford. In this segment, the
CHTR appears in the credits.
: Can you add to this collection?
In the movie "Spotswood" (starring Anthony Hopkins, and set in
1950's/60's Spotswood), Y133 appears, with period rollingstock.
Also shown are some V/Line sand hoppers on the AGM (?) siding at
Spotswood (This is one of a couple of lapses in continuity - the
West Gate Bridge is also shown in the movie).
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David Bromage
>In article <3v80p7$p...@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> s931...@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (Craig Haber) writes:
>>There's an article in the Herald-Sun (Thurs 27/7) featuring the
>>appearance of trains in movies.
>>How about some sort of list of the usage of *Australian* trains in
>>Movies, TV shows, ads and the like.
>Puffing Billy's 8A starred as Wombat (a nickname it still keeps) in the ABC
>series 'Come Midnight Monday'.
There was a rather forgettable ABC series (I can't remember the name)
where in one episode D3.639 passed through (Molesworth?) which had been
renamed Passyouby.
D3.639 was also used in a commercial back in the 1970s in which she was
painted a rather ghastly shade of red.
Lilydale station was "Bellbird" station in the ABC series of the same name.
They often used a 153hp Walker or DERM.
And how can we forget the classic feature film "On The Beach"? There were
several scenes at Flinders St and Frankston featuring the (then) new
Harris trains. There were also some good shots of trams.
In modern day series, Sunbury is often used as "Mt Thomas" in Blue Heelers.
Rockbank was used as "Coopers Crossing" in The Flying Doctors, although
the actual town scenes were filmed at Minyip.
Moving out of Victoria for a minute (what a novelty), there was a scene
from The True Believers with 3801. I think the shot may have been taken
from the Film Australia film "A Steam Train Passes".
There was also some wartime mini-series which had part of the newsreel
"General Douglas Macarthur arrives in Melbourne", then they cut to the
"live" action, in which Sydney poses as Melbourne, of the actor getting
off the train. As they walk forward they pass the locomotive (was it a
C30T?) with a big "NSW" on the side. On top of all that you could see an
XPT in the background.
A less well known Australian film called "Undercover" related the story of
the "Great White Train" in the 1930s. The replica was hauled by 5069 and
one shot showed it pulling into Mudgee. The words "BUY AUSTRALIAN MADE"
were painted along the side of about 6 box cars.
The ABC made several 3 minute fillers featuring trains. One had the XPT
somewhere around the Hawksbury River. Another was of 3028 and 5069 on the
first train back to Dorrigo.
In "Gallipoli" there are two train scenes. The guys hitch a ride on a
goods train hauled by T186 on the Pichi Richi Railway, but purporting to
be in WA. Later they arrive in "Perth" which was actually Adelaide, Rx224
and all.
T186 was also used in "We Of The Never Never", this time purporting to be
in the Northern Territory.
Cheers
David
David Bromage
>In the movie "Spotswood" (starring Anthony Hopkins, and set in
>1950's/60's Spotswood), Y133 appears, with period rollingstock.
It was filmed back in 1990. The carriages were Steamrail vehicles 14CW,
18CE and 470ZD. I was riding in the CE. :)
>Also shown are some V/Line sand hoppers on the AGM (?) siding at
>Spotswood (This is one of a couple of lapses in continuity - the
>West Gate Bridge is also shown in the movie).
This was the same scene. The train hauled by Y133 was running past the
AGC sand siding at Spotswood.
There was another scene at the southern end of the Bunbury Street tunnel
(Footscray).
On the subject of time warps on TV, in the ABC series "The Leaving of
Liverpool" (set in the 1950s) there was a nice shot of a candy stripe 48
class.
Cheers
David
Lori and Daniel Bowen
>K153 also appeared in an episode of Mission Impossible. She was stripped
>of numberplates and had some vaguely asian lettering added in various places.
Yep, they filmed that on platform 1 of Caulfield Station... I was waiting
for a Frankston train on platform 2 and noticed the old carriages
and engine, and LOTS of extras.
There's been a Twinings ad recorded at Hawthorn station, and I've seen
a few shop catalogues (eg Myer) that have taken photos at Hawthorn. When
I lived in Hawthorn I would occasionally notice photo shoots happening
there - maybe that's where the PTC try to send all the people who want
railway pictures in their ads?
In Ben Elton's "Stark", there was a scene purporting to be in Perth,
but filmed at Richmond, as a Comeng suburban train went past.... Well,
it spoiled it for me!
Daniel
dbo...@cpe.com.au
James Ng
GMT,David Bromage,bro...@mdw078.cc.monash.edu.au says...
>
>s940...@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (John Abraham Cleverdon) writes:
>
>>In the movie "Spotswood" (starring Anthony Hopkins, and set in
>>1950's/60's Spotswood), Y133 appears, with period rollingstock.
>
>It was filmed back in 1990. The carriages were Steamrail vehicles 14CW,
>18CE and 470ZD. I was riding in the CE. :)
filmed?
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With regards from James Ng of Melbourne Australia. A great city down
under! :-)
Home to the largest tramway system in the English speaking world.
David Bromage
>The Regaletto ad have a R class loco in it does anyone know where was it
>filmed?
It was filmed in the West Block of the Newport Workshops, now partly
occupied by Steamrail.
Cheers
David
Craig Haber
>This beast was a mockup built on a goods wagon frame. It was powered by
>the "tender" which was actually an RT rail tractor with the cab cut off
>and a tender built on.
So does this 'beast' still exist? In the show it seems to haul around
some wagons and a couple of Z vans. I don't recall seing any of this
type rollingstock on the CHTR, but there are some (and 2 RT's as well)
at Trentham.
>The sound was dubbed, rather inaccurately. You
>can hear the sound of a Westinghouse cross compound compressor but cannot
>see one on the "locomotive". The vehicle was fully braked, you can
>actually see "PV 10-94" on the frame. Must have been 1894. :)
>>>K190 Appeared in "The Lighthorsemen", and also in "Phar Lap". The V/Line
>>>news article "On the Silver Screen" Oct 87 issues said K190 also "raced
>>>to confront the Kelly Gang at Glenrowan", but I think that must have been
>>>a different movie to the one at Rosanna!
>>This may have been the remake in the 70,s "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger.
>What a forgettable film THAT was!
>Cheers
>David
Roger Cooper
to be the setting for !.....(its just gone from my mind!!!! )that Wandan
Valley medical soap whatever it was called I hardly ever watch the
commercial TV.
Craig Haber
I saw a new McDonalds ad tonight with 3801 in the background.
Given that there's a "McFun" Birney tram at Bendigo, how long till 3801
becomes "Mc3801"? (:
David Bromage
>bro...@mdw078.cc.monash.edu.au (David Bromage) writes:
>>This beast was a mockup built on a goods wagon frame. It was powered by
>>the "tender" which was actually an RT rail tractor with the cab cut off
>>and a tender built on.
>So does this 'beast' still exist? In the show it seems to haul around
>some wagons and a couple of Z vans. I don't recall seing any of this
>type rollingstock on the CHTR, but there are some (and 2 RT's as well)
>at Trentham.
It's probably still at Trentham if it wasn't dismantled.
Cheers
David
Glenn E Farrell
>In article <3v80p7$p...@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> s931...@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (Craig Haber) writes:
>
>>There's an article in the Herald-Sun (Thurs 27/7) featuring the
>>appearance of trains in movies.
>
>
>>How about some sort of list of the usage of *Australian* trains in
>>Movies, TV shows, ads and the like.
1242 starred on the former Captain's Flat line in the 1960s in the Ned Kelly-starring-Mick-
Jagger film, renumbered to its original 176. It later appeared on its Vintage Train
duties carrying the old number.
3801 has featured heaps of times - I've seen more than one show with excerps
from 'A Steam Train Passes'. One was the Bodyline mini-series. The fact that
the Ashes tour was 11 or 12 years before 3801 came about and the fact that
standard gauge trains at that stage couldn't run Sydney-Melbourne-Adelaide-Perth
(ie all the same loco all the way) was lost on the producers who re-used the same
viaduct footage for every leg of the trip!
It may not count, but a few years ago GM 4201 was placed 'wrong road'
at Mt Victoria in front of 4 U-boat interurban trailers (ie no pantographs
on these) to film an America ad (for tea, I think) during one of the
TV strikes in the US. This ad was for US consumption only.
The Year My Voice broke featured some 48s.
The opening scenes for the channel 9 presentation of Mick Jaggers
Sydney concert of a few years ago featured him in front of a 49
(at Broken Hill, I think).
The Dunera Boys, about Italian war interns sent from Britain to SW NSw
featured a mexican steam engine (sorry guys from Vic... :))
The Cowra Breakout mini-series featured (I think) 3642.
And wait, there's more.....
My niece watches Home & Away and reliably informs me that
they film suburban electric trains in the Campbelltown area and
also at Brooklyn (oops, Hawkesbury River station at Brooklyn).
And no I don't watch telly, just the ads.
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Glenn E Farrell (far...@ibm.net)
Sydney NSW Australia
David Bromage
Ford filmed two TV ads using steam. One was part of the "Have you driven
a Ford lately" series and showed a car running parallel to H2 in Tasmania.
Another was made in Victoria for the American market and showed a red
Capri (left hand drive) running parallel to M6 on the Bellaring Peninsula
Railway.
Cheers
David
John Abraham Cleverdon
: There's an article in the Herald-Sun (Thurs 27/7) featuring the
: Can you add to this collection?
We had a discussion over the weekend, and came up with more examples:
(some info is sketchy - we can't remember all the details)
*A dog food ad (not sure which brand) features Zig Zag C17 934 (or
937?). A pram with a baby in it rolls on to the line in front of
the train, and the dog drags the pram away just in time.
* The movie "Frogdreaming" features a boy riding a gangers trolley
along the Puffing Billy line (and almost colliding with a train).
* The movie "Sirens" (best known for starring Elle Macpherson)
features 3801 (I haven't seen it yet - at least I've got a
good excuse :->
* The movie "The Delinquents" features a diesel-hauled train.
* The mini-series "Brides of Christ" features a train, believed to
be a NSW one.
* The movie "Metalheads"(?) was filmed in/near the Melbourne Goods
Yard - I'm not sure if any trains appear in it though.
* The series "Round The Twist" (about a family living in a
lighthouse) features Puffing Billy.
* The recent Skim Milk ad which was filmed in a Sydney double-
decker emu.
* The TAC (Transport Accident Commission) ad featuring a G(or N)
colliding with a car.
* The movie "Young Einstein" features a steam train - we believe this
is a non-Victorian train.
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Alan Wilson
>
>The ABC made several 3 minute fillers featuring trains. One had the XPT
>somewhere around the Hawksbury River. Another was of 3028 and 5069 on the
>first train back to Dorrigo.
>
One filler I remember from years back (middle to late 60's) was taken
from the cab of a single deck interurban travelling from Sydney to
Gosford. It looked like the camera had been set up, and then just left
running. The net effect was that you got a driver's view of the short
north, compressed into about 3 minutes. Does anybody else remember
this one?
Poddy
James Ng
again ... just a thought some one could/should approach seven-eleven
corporation and try to get some sponsorship.
Roderick Smith
been accumulating material for an RNV article, and can add some bits,
but have no time.
* A 1930's classic on a timber theme was filmed in NSW, and featured a
Shay.
* D3.639 was painted red for a c1970 wool advertisement filmed on the
Healesville line, with Yering doctored as Passyouby. This was described
in a Divisional Diary feature.
* There was a film made on the Bell line in Queensland; the locals
featured as extras; they thought that the film was poor. Railway scenes
used preserved RM55.
* A rites-of-passage film was made at Bundaberg (Under the mango tree?).
It had railway scenes.
* Garbos features a W2 tram.
* Tram & Tait scenes in Power without glory.
* Ballarat as Melbourne in Getting of wisdom.
* All the Sullivans scenes: Geelong as wartime Europe; Bellarine
Peninsula as the Egyptian desert.
* The first episode of Homicide was all over Puffing Billy.
* Something was filmed at Dysart with a K.
* While some of the filming at Maldon used live steam locos, one was
simply carriages pushed into the platform by a diesel hidden beyond
several wagons. I think that this was the one which had Eldon Hogan as
an extra (a railway porter). It included a Steamrail BL carriage and an
FP
* I also did a piece on railways in stage theatre; it was printed in a
c1987 Newsrail. In September a railway scene opens and closes the
ballet
Anna Karenina, performed in Melbourne.
Regards,
Roderick Smith (Rail News Victoria Editor)
Craig Haber
>* Tram & Tait scenes in Power without glory.
D3 639 was also used in episode 18 of this series. It was fitted
with a smoke generator, and pushed by an F
class loco, filmed at the tarpaulin shops of Newport Workshops (is
that the bit which is the soon-to-be superceeded SRV depot?).
See Sept 1976 "RailWays" VR magazine for story.
The mini-series "All the Rivers Run" had the A2 on the wharf at
Echuca smoking, again with the help of a smoke generator.
Regards,
Craig Haber
>K184 was in "Ride a Wild Pony" back in the 1970s.
K184 was also in "Break of Day". "Ride a Wild Pony" was made in Nov
1974, "Break of Day" made in May 1976.
See Feb 1977 RailWays VR Magazine for story.
Craig Haber
Station, renamed Tara Gully for the ad in May 1978.
"A Day in the lIfe of a Station Assistant" was filmed at Rosanna (my
'home' station is quite a celebrity (: ) by the CES in December 1980.
It was also used for Level Crossing ads in the 70's - ads were filmed at
the adjacent Lower Plenty Rd crossing - perhaps they should make some new
ones there, several people have been killed here in the last couple of years.
David Cooper
<rods...@werple.mira.net.au> wrote:
> * A rites-of-passage film was made at Bundaberg (Under the mango tree?).
> It had railway scenes.
Under the Mango Tree features rail scene(s) filmed on the Gin Gin branch
(now closed) in 197<mumble>. I hung over the Bundaberg station fence one
morning before work and watched the train leave for a day's shooting.
rgds
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David Bromage
>* The TAC (Transport Accident Commission) ad featuring a G(or N)
>colliding with a car.
It was a simulated crash. The first plan for this ad was to actually
crash a train (remotely controlled) into a car. The loco would have been
B83, but fortunately the idea was abandoned and the loco is now preserved
in the ARHS museum.
Cheers
David
David Bromage
West Coast Railway get a 7 figure subsidy from the Victorian government.
I doubt they need any sponsorship.
Cheers
David
John Abraham Cleverdon
>* This correspondence was very confusing: too much requoting. I have
>been accumulating material for an RNV article, and can add some bits,
>but have no time.
>Regards,
>Roderick Smith (Rail News Victoria Editor)
Another movie I just remembered; the D3 at the Swan Hill Pioneer
Settlement (can't recall number) appears in "Bushfire Moon", again
along with a smoke generator.
David Bromage
>Another movie I just remembered; the D3 at the Swan Hill Pioneer
>Settlement (can't recall number) appears in "Bushfire Moon", again
>along with a smoke generator.
The locomotive at Swan Hill is D3.640, but carried the number D3.688 for
many years.
As an aside, D3.640 is the only surviving locomotive built at Thompson's
Iron Foundry at Castlemaine. It is also carries builder's number 1.
Cheers
David
David Bromage
There was a Mad Max-style movie filmed at Thirlmere. Ex-BHP loco D1 had
"Amtrak" painted on the side for the purpose.
Cheers
David
Roderick Smith
* 1970s film (not On the beach) had an actress in a Harris train on the
Frankston line (remembered by Peter Foun).
* Les Haining in the pie advertisements.
* The delinquents, a film made in Bundaberg, with diesel cane trains.
* July 95 Rail News Victoria p33 had items on Blue heelers, Crossing the
line, and Footy show.
Regards,
Roderick
Roderick Smith
>j...@world.net (James Ng) writes:
>
>>surely everyone knows that steam engine R711 is being restored to run
>>again ... just a thought some one could/should approach seven-eleven
>>corporation and try to get some sponsorship.
>
prominent places. The results of the Rail News Victoria readers' design
competition will appear in the April 1996 issue.
Roderick
A Bruce in the land of the Bruces
: * This correspondence was very confusing: too much requoting. I have
Terrible isn't it?
: * There was a film made on the Bell line in Queensland; the locals
: featured as extras; they thought that the film was poor. Railway scenes
: used preserved RM55.
Yep - old "Red Fred" now at the ARHS-QLD society railway at Rosewood.
The opening scene of that movie (where a car chases RM55 for a bit)
was probably the best bit.
A Japanese ad used PB15 738 (at Rosewood) with 'cute' carriages (the end
platform's metalwork was painted canary yellow). Channel 7's recent
Steam Special (Frank Warrick - World Around Us) featured the Rosewood
Railway, and QR engines DD1051, BB18 1/4 1079 (possibly others, I missed
bits of it). The section where they show how the steam crews used to
eat cooking sausages on the fireman's shovel - Rosewood again (I've seen
what that shovel is used for - I ain't eating off it!)
Channel 7 also runs a "Save the Environment - Take a CityTrain" ad with 2
EMU sets going over the Merivale Bridge and (I think) on the
Corinda-Yerongapilly Line.
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John Abraham Cleverdon
>The Year My Voice broke featured some 48s.
Some wooden-bodied passenger rollingstock was featured with the 48s, as well
as a station (not sure which one). Also, a SRA guards van was shown used as
a signal "cabin".
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>Glenn E Farrell (far...@ibm.net)
>Sydney NSW Australia
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Glenn E Farrell
recently Rozelle yard featured with 422s and 81s. Some
dude from Cardiff, NSW wrote to "Backchat" complaining
about the continuity of some scenes, prompting a suite
of questions from friends about 'was it me'.
They have also used some soon-to-be-scrapped 600/700
class railmotors involved in an 'accident', filmed at Flemington
Car Sheds, and I think there was once a similar episode set
in the underground railway.
The movie "Strictly Ballroom" was filmed in Pyrmont Yard
in the shadow of the now partly demolished White Bay
power station. The setting was actually the now-demolished
shop fronting the road with the yard behind, complete with
two 49s shunting for effect.
Glenn.
John Mitchell
>One filler I remember from years back (middle to late 60's) was taken
>from the cab of a single deck interurban travelling from Sydney to
>Gosford. It looked like the camera had been set up, and then just left
>running. The net effect was that you got a driver's view of the short
>north, compressed into about 3 minutes. Does anybody else remember
>this one?
>Poddy
Sure do.
It is called "Fast Train to Gosford" and a battered 16mm copy is still
available from the NSW State Library... great fun
John mitchell
Roderick Smith
>awi...@zeta.org.au (Alan Wilson) wrote:
>
"Fast Train to Gosford" was modelled on "London to Brighton in four
minutes". The technique was repeated in "Shades of Puffing Billy",
already mentioned in this correspondence.
Who is responsible for wiping out these letters each day, while the
advertising junk is on for two weeks? I don't want to miss any of the
discoveries, but haven't the time to log in every day.
Roderick Smith
Andrew Waugh
>Who is responsible for wiping out these letters each day, while the
>advertising junk is on for two weeks? I don't want to miss any of the
>discoveries, but haven't the time to log in every day.
Probably the people who run werple.mira.net.au. System administrators
set up their system to automatically erase articles over a certain age.
Typically the age will vary for different newsgroups. This is why some
articles last forever - an article won't disappear from a newsgroup
until the last newsgroup it was sent to is cleaned out. Ages are set
depending on how important the sys admins think the newsgroup is (i.e.
how popular it is) and the volume of traffic. To confirm that this is
the problem, ask your system administrators. If it is the problem
ask them to reduce their cleanout frequency. They might refuse, of
course.
Articles also have individual expiry dates, which are set by the sender
or (more commonly) by default by the system when the article is sent.
The people who send spams (the advertising junk) obviously set the
article's expiry date high. This shouldn't be your problem as I see the
same articles and they certainly don't expire on a daily basis. But if
the articles take a long time to get to werple, the articles may be
close to their expiry date. Again, ask your system administrators.
You could always set up your system to automatically contact werple
each day and download the articles for later perusal.
andrew waugh
Roderick Smith
between Gololwa and Victor Harbor.