Elizabethan Express

Jan 1, 1954

0h 20m

★ 6.0

Overview

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. A nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

British Transport Films

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Alan Wheatley

Self - Narrator (voice)

Howard Marion-Crawford

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