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Night Mail 1936 GPO Documentary Train LMS 6115 in Station
Joined: 14/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 492 Location: Maryborough, Qld
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Night Mail is a 1936 English documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) film unit. The 24-minute film documents the nightly postal train operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) from London to Glasgow and the staff who operate it. Narrated by John Grierson and Stuart Legg, the film ends with a "verse commentary" written by W. H. Auden to score by composer Benjamin Britten. The locomotive featured in the film is Royal Scot Class No. 6115 Scots Guardsman. Night Mail premiered on 4 February 1936 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre in Cambridge, England in a launch programme for the venue. Its general release gained critical praise and became a classic of its own kind, much imitated by adverts and modern film shorts. Night Mail is widely considered a masterpiece of the British Documentary Film Movement. A sequel was released in 1987 entitled Night Mail 2. From the comments section "One can visit retired Post Office carriages at the Quainton Road Station museum in Buckinghamshire"
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That was pretty interesting. Unload 500 mail bags in 13 minutes! Right at the end it was also interesting to see the crews cleaning the exterior of the loco including the wheels. It sort of vindicates the use of nice new looking locos on a layout. |
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