"published in the early days of political correctness, London Borough of Hackney Public Libraries banned the entire series because of the Indian elephant keeper, called Bani. They thought ethnic minorities might be offended by him. Ivor the Engine Ivor the Engine is a British stop motion animated television series created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms company. It follows the adventures of a small green steam locomotive who lived in the ""top left-hand corner of Wales"" and worked for ""The Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Limited"". His friends included Jones the Steam, Evans the Song and Dai Station,"
"Castle, Llanfairpwll, Lympstone Commando, The Lakes and Penychain. The series was made by Brown Bob Productions Ltd for Channel 4, executive produced by Jacqueline Hewer, and directed by Ewen Thomson. The series makes extensive use of aerial filming. Although Merton is primarily known as a comedian and as a panelist on ""Have I Got News For You"", he had also been presenting travel documentaries since 2007. In the introduction to the series he explains he ""loves railways and everything about them"", and that his fascination with rail travel stemmed from the fact his father was a train driver on the"
"series ""Cranford"", which is set in Cheshire. The railway featured in the two-part Christmas special that was first broadcast in December 2009. Judi Dench, who played the part of Matilda 'Matty' Jenkyns, invited several of the main characters to ride on the train in an attempt to alter their opinions about the benefits of the railway being extended into the town of Cranford. The station at Caverswall offers visitor facilities such as a Buffet serving hot and cold food and drinks and a Real Ale bar ""The One Legged Shunter"". Also a museum building displaying a variety of artifacts relating"
"moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green (Lesley Joseph), is a middle-aged married Jewish woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the last two BBC series, the location is changed to nearby Hainault, Essex before returning to Chigwell in series 10 (the first aired on ITV). The series ended its original BBC One run on Christmas Eve 1998 after nine years, but returned just over 15 years later, on 2 January 2014, on ITV, for its tenth series overall, running for eight episodes. The opening episode of the"
"SR N15 class 777 Sir Lamiel ""Sir Lamiel"" is now preserved and is part of the National Collection, under the care of the 5305 Locomotive Association, and is based at the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. The loco is now running regular passenger services on the preserved section of the Great Central Railway, where it is based. It appeared (as a Great Western engine) in the ITV crime drama series Agatha Christie's Poirot. Series 3 episodes: The Plymouth Express and The Double Clue broadcast in 1991. In 1995 it featured in the BBC television play ""Cruel Train"", an adaptation of"
"'Mary's House' (The Hare and Hounds) and 'Thripnies' (The Crown and Cushion, Silver Street - now closed). Whitwick Colliery was opened on the outskirts of the parish by the engineer William Stenson near Long Lane in 1824, precipitating a massive expansion and development of this industry across the north west of Leicestershire. Though coal mining on this scale was only a major concern in Whitwick for a century and a half - a relatively short period for a settlement with a documented history spanning ten centuries - the place is still considered by many to be a colliery village due"
"Hunslet Engine Company, Kitson & Co. and Manning Wardle. The locomotives include ""Sir Berkeley"", which was featured in the 1968 BBC TV version of ""The Railway Children"". The locomotive is owned by the Vintage Carriages Trust of Ingrow near Keighley. Although the operational line starts at Moor Road, the line actually begins with the ""Balm Road Branch"" which joins the Middleton Railway with the Leeds - Sheffield route of the Hallam & Pontefract Lines. However, the connection to the main network has been bolted closed preventing access having not been used since 1990. This section of track crosses ""Beza Road"","
"fame as the station-mistress wearing traditional Welsh costume and serving teas in the station house. Will Jones was a well-respected track man and passed on some of his skills to countless volunteers over the final 14 years of his employment. Bessie Jones (played none too sympathetically by Louie Emery) even appeared in Michael Powell's 1935 thriller The Phantom Light, which opens with an extended scene at the Station featuring the film's heroine, played by Binnie Hale. In addition to the station house, Tan-y-Bwlch has an original wooden station building, a modern water tank (built in the early 1990s) and a"
"network. Services operate northbound to Liverpool, via Birkenhead town centre and southbound to Chester and Ellesmere Port. Mersey Park Primary School has several famous former pupils including Jason McAteer (footballer) and Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC TV sitcom ""Keeping up Appearances""). Paul O'Grady, famous for his alter-ego creation Lily Savage, was raised in the area. Colin Haygarth, the Scottish gunmaker, was born in Tranmere. He lived in Milton Road until he was four years old, when his family moved to nearby Irby. He was The Queen Mother's gunmaker from 1965 until 2002, is the oldest living gunmaker in"
"on the band's ""38 Carat Collection"". The series is currently being repeated on ITV3. The show follows the lives of the people of Skelthwaite, a fictional small Yorkshire town; particularly the work of the district nurses at the town's health centre. It originally focuses on the extended Snow and Goddard family — sisters-in-law and close friends Peggy Snow (Ferris) and Ruth Goddard (Lancashire) who work together as district nurses, while Ruth's husband and Peggy's younger brother Simon (Thomas Craig) is the town's main employer through his paper products factory. Peggy's husband Vic (Tony Haygarth) and her children Stephen and Lucy"
"in supporting roles, among others. The six hour-long episodes in the series were set in coastal Wales, in a town devastated by the closure of the local carriage works though filmed in Druridge Bay, Northumberland. According to the sign on the local chocolate bonbon factory appearing in Episode 1 where George, Barney, Diane et al. work, the exact location where the set is (fictional) Tonglas, in Newport. Rocket Man (TV series) Rocket Man is a BBC television drama series produced in 2005 by Philip Leach, about a recently widowed Welsh man who is struggling to build a rocket in which"
"Celia Imrie, Lesley Sharp, Nicholas Le Prevost, Jodie Whittaker, Tom Hiddleston, Michelle Dockery, Matthew McNulty and Rory Kinnear joining the cast. The program aired on 10 & 17 January 2010 on PBS in the United States. The new stories, which were written by Heidi Thomas and directed by Simon Curtis, took place in August 1844; a year after the wedding of Sophy Hutton and Dr Harrison. Filming of the railway sequences took place at the Foxfield Railway in Staffordshire. Cranford (TV series) Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas"
"the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. Work on rebuilding the line started in 1965, and on 4 June 1967, two steam locomotives were delivered. The operating company, North Norfolk Railway plc, was launched in 1965 following the granting of two Light Railway Orders. In May 1973, the railway was the scene of filming for the episode ""The Royal Train"" of the popular TV programme ""Dad's Army"". The railway won the 'Independent Railway of the Year' award in 2006. At Sheringham the line has now been reconnected to the National Rail network station via an 'occasional use' level crossing. There"
"gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton (Richard Armitage). The serial is based on the 1855 Victorian novel ""North and South"" by Elizabeth Gaskell and takes place in the years surrounding the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was adapted for television by Sandy Welch and directed by Brian Percival. Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe) and her parents Maria (Lesley Manville) and Richard (Tim Pigott-Smith) live in the idyllic town in Helstone in Hampshire. At the wedding of her cousin, Edith, Margaret is approached by Edith's new brother-in-law, Henry Lennox (John Light)."
"Price. The series is directed by Simon Massey and Dermot Boyd and produced by Peter Norris. Rough Diamond (TV series) Rough Diamond is a television series co-produced by BBC Northern Ireland and RTÉ. The series also appears on RTÉ One in the Republic of Ireland The story explores the relationship between discredited racehorse trainer Aidan Doherty and Jonah Price, the son he never knew existed. The first episode begins with Doherty about to sell his run down stables to his neighbour and former employer Charlie Carrick, wealthy owner of the neighbouring Firebrand stables, and move to New South Wales. However,"
"manager Malcolm McLaren and Mike Reid competing for a vacant Baronial title in a small Scottish town called Gardenstown, near Banff in Aberdeenshire. During the filming, McLaren was thrown out of the village for unruly behaviour, leaving Reid and Shaw to contest the final election, which was won by Reid. Before his death, Reid had expressed a wish to have a new community centre built in the village; a number of donations have since been secured from his family and others, and this is likely to go ahead in the near future. The show premièred on 24 April 2008 on"
"by a Labour government. The film also features uncredited appearances by Jonathan Cecil and Sally Geeson in minor roles. The railway scenes were filmed on the former Longmoor Military Railway (closed in 1969). In the final railway scene where the girls 'return' the money the British Railways station at Liss can be seen in the background. The locomotives used were: The extras on board the St Trinian's train were pupils from a local convent school. In addition the school used for much of the filming was Little Abbey Preparatory School, near Liss. The school was in fact the other side"
"the National Agriculture and Allied Workers' sector. It was at that time that the Strike School was turned into a museum and a rally to commemorate the school and the longest strike in UK history was re-established. The annual rally has been held on the first Sunday in September since 1984. It is organised by the trustees, members of TGWU (now Unite the Union) with support from other trade union organisations. The story of the strike was dramatised in 1985 by the BBC. ""Screen Two: The Burston Rebellion"" starred Eileen Atkins as Kitty Higdon, Bernard Hill as Tom Higdon, John"
"and his colleagues are trapped is located at Terling, Essex, and ""Gladstone"", the ancient steam locomotive, was portrayed by No. 2 ""Northiam"" 2-4-0T built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1899 and loaned by the Kent and East Sussex Railway to the film. The engine was returned to the company after completion of the film and remained in service until 1941, when it was scrapped. The title sequence uses scenes shot at a variety of locations on the Waterloo to Southampton railway line, and according to John Huntley in his book ""Railways on Screen"", ""[t]he editor reversed his negative at one stage"
"cleared the area to recreate the previously open panoramic views of both the Severn Bridges and beyond to the Black Mountains in Wales. The village shop on Barrs Lane has been run as a voluntary organisation by villagers since 2001. Since 2007 the villagers have organised the annual Nibley Music Festival. The village is home to the Nibley Nobblers football team and Nibley Cricket Team, who have won the legendary Pratt Cup two seasons in a row. In 2014 the final episode of the third series of BBC One's ""Sherlock"" featured the futuristic Swinhay House, home of Renishaw plc founder"
"""Casualty"", season 22, episode 05. The storyline of ""Casualty"" involved both the Gatwick Express stock that is located on site as well as 03158 acting as an approaching goods train. This locomotive departed for the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway in June 2009 but has since moved again to the Great Central Heritage Railway. The BBC returned to the railway in August 2009 to shoot scenes for a new drama which aired between 1 and 5 March 2010 called ""Five Days II"" starring Suranne Jones, Anne Reid, Bernard Hill, Matthew McNulty and Ashley Walters. The station at Wirksworth was turned into the"
"Creative and Cultural Industries faculty (CCI for short) of the University of South Wales. Cardiff is the filming location and/or setting for many mainstream television programmes such as ""Torchwood"", ""Doctor Who"", ""Sarah Jane Adventures"", ""Merlin (TV series)"", ""Gavin & Stacey"", ""Caerdydd"" and Pobl y Cwm, and for films such as ""Human Traffic"", ""The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain"" and ""28 Weeks Later"". It is also referenced in ""Mars Attacks!"" It was announced on 15 October 2008 that the BBC is to move the filming shows such as Casualty and Crimewatch to studios in Cardiff."
"of their respective enterprises. The opening sequence was shot in Ancoats, Manchester, an area transformed by the Industrial Revolution which helped give the city its nickname Cottonopolis. The sequence features shots of Brunswick Mill, Murrays' Mills and McConnel & Kennedy mills - all three are Manchester's most famous cotton mills in production at the time of the Industrial Revolution and keeps in line with the programme's warehouse theme. The location at which the pitches are filmed has varied over the years. It was originally filmed inside a furniture depository in Stoke Newington. The production were forced to move after the"
"the present-day Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. A television series based on the books was made in the 1980s, and was filmed in Ireland at locations in Kildare and Wicklow with additional locations in the west of Ireland in a co-production between Ulster Television and Radio Telefís Éireann. It was broadcast on Channel 4 and S4C in the United Kingdom, and RTÉ One in the Republic of Ireland. Like the books, the television series is a number of short stories around a few central characters. Morristown Lattin, the house used as Aussolas Castle, the residence of Beryl Reid's incarnation"
"production ended in Lincoln in 1968. In 1964 vertical pumps were supplied to the Deeping fen IDB for the pumping station at Pode Hole, where they remain in use. The company was acquired by W.H. Allen, Sons and Co in 1960, and subsequently by Amalgamated Power Engineering. There is a traction engine in both Rev W Awdry's Railway Series and The Thomas & Friends TV Series based on one of these named Trevor. William Foster & Co. William Foster & Co Ltd was an agricultural machinery company based in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England and usually just called ""Fosters of Lincoln."" The"
"Chigley Chigley (1969) is the third and final stop-motion children's television series in Gordon Murray's ""Trumptonshire"" trilogy. Production details are identical to ""Camberwick Green"". As in ""Camberwick Green"" and ""Trumpton"", the action centres on a small community, the village of Chigley, near Camberwick Green in Trumptonshire. Chigley is more of an industrial area than Camberwick Green. A digitally restored version of the series from the rediscovered original film masters emerged in 2012. Winkstead Hall, a stately home, is central to life in Chigley. The aristocratic owner, Lord Belborough, and his butler Brackett, also operate a heritage railway. They are called"
"the two World Wars, and in 1956 Sir John transferred the Ardverikie estate to a family company under the chairmanship of his son, Sir William Pennington-Ramsden. The company, Ardverikie Estate Limited, still owns and manages the estate today. The estate does business renting cottages and letting the property for weddings. Ardverikie House and its estate have been used as a location for filming. It is most recognisable as the Glenbogle estate in the BBC series ""Monarch of the Glen"", that ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2005. It was also used in the films ""Mrs Brown"" (1997), ""Salmon Fishing"
"carriages. There are also a number of service wagons, used for maintaining the track. Motive power was provided by two steam outline diesel locomotives. One of these, ""Parracombe"", was built by Baguley in 1947 for the line at Butlins, Clacton. A scene from that period featured in the closing sequences of a popular TV series ""Hi-de-Hi!"" (1979-1987). This loco was transferred to the Groudle Glen Railway in 2007. Lynbarn Railway The narrow gauge Lynbarn Railway opened in 1995 as a park ride at the Milky Way Adventure Park, a family-based theme park attraction near Clovelly in north Devon, England. It"
"fishing industry and the highlands economy in general, which suffered enormously after the Highland Clearances of the 1800s. The line is used by passenger trains operated by ScotRail between Glasgow Queen Street and Mallaig, usually diesel multiple units. Additionally in the summer the heritage Jacobite steam train operates along the line. It is a popular tourist event in the area, and the viaduct is one of the major attractions of the line. Glenfinnan Viaduct has been used as a location in several films and television series, including ""Ring of Bright Water"", ""Charlotte Gray"", ""Monarch of the Glen"", and ""Stone of"
"scenes involving the loch use Loch Laggan. The majority of the programme was filmed on and around the Ardverikie Estate situated on the South-East bank of Loch Laggan. Glenbogle Station was filmed at Broomhill Station, near Nethy Bridge. This station is the terminus of the Strathspey Railway, a restored steam railway. The River Pattack just up from the Ardverikie Estate was used several times. Glenbogle Church is the Cille Choirille Church near Roy Bridge. Lord Kilwillie's Castle is Balavil House, off the A86 road near Kingussie. Seven series were filmed, totaling 64 episodes (including a Hogmanay Special). The series was"
"Inheritance (TV series) Inheritance was a 1967 Granada produced ITV drama based on a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley. The ten-part period drama revolved around the fortunes of the Oldroyds, a Yorkshire mill owning family from 1812 to 1965. The early part of the series featured the Luddite riots involving the burning of mills and the subsequent execution of those responsible. The series turned the expression ""There's trouble at t'mill"" into a catchphrase. The series featured Michael Goodliffe, John Thaw and James Bolam in leading roles over the generations. Each new generation saw Goodliffe and Thaw playing father and eldest"
"museum also has a display about Cardinal Patrick O'Donnell, mementos from the filming of Dancing at Lughnasa, and an extensive display about the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee. It also has a reading room with a good collection of local historic records. The local Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club – Naomh Conaill; field teams at all age levels playing gaelic football predominantly. Glenties was the model for Brian Friel's fictional village of Ballybeg, where several of his works were set. His play ""Dancing at Lughnasa"" was set in Ballybeg and was made into a film in 1994 starring Meryl Streep."
"the author's father, the Rev. W. Awdry, who created the series; the name was applied to Hunslet 3806, built in 1953, at the Dean Forest Railway by Awdry in 1987. An Austerity appeared in the film ""The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery"" filmed on the Longmoor Military Railway. This loco, No. 3796 ""Errol Lonsdale"", was disguised as British Railways No. 68011 for filming. It was subsequently preserved on the Mid Hants Railway and later on the South Devon Railway, but has since been sold abroad to private owners and is currently based at the Maldegem Railway Museum in Belgium. The"