Published in partnership with the Bluebell Railway Line to the Stars: Sixty Years of Filming at the Bluebell Railway celebrates the railway's many appearances on screen over the course of six decades.
Since their first filming contract, in 1961, the Bluebell Railway in Sussex has been host to a myriad of film and TV stars over more than sixty years. The railway has provided a variety of different settings, both real and fictional, in this country or overseas. In this book the author, Heidi Mowforth, explores the many varied productions which have been recorded at the Bluebell Railway, a series of feature films, films for TV, classic detective dramas, factual/educational programmes, commercials, pop videos, costume dramas and much more besides. Tastes have changed over the decades, as have the way that films are made and how we can watch them. What hasn’t changed, even with the advent of CGI, is that when producers want historic trains within a historic setting, nothing seems to look quite as good as a real train in an authentic location.
18 black & white and 84 photographs. 128 pages.