Posted by PeterH on September 08, 2006 at 23:32:20 from 86.130.134.3 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Why Arctic and not Antarctic ? posted by Peter Ceresole on September 08, 2006 at 21:03:28:
in 'Night Mail' as the train races into the night from Crewe
Ah yes, having changed from a taper-boilered locomotive to a parallel-boilered one, and back, without stopping. And a firehole door is shown left open when the fireman wasn't firing - this was never done. One must beware of accepting films/TV as 'gospel' about anything.
However, once the errors are overlooked, John Grierson's film was a fine one, greatly boosted by Auden's verses.
PeterH
A member of the TarBoard Railway And Inland Navigation Society (TRAINS)