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A guide to films and television productions that have used Didcot Railway Centre as a location, and locomotives you can see at the Railway Centre that have travelled to other locations to appear in films.
Title |
Date |
Starring |
Location |
Locomotives and rolling stock |
Anna Karenina (film) |
2012 |
Keira Knightley |
Didcot Engine Shed (as Moscow station) |
5322, 3822, vintage carriages |
Bliss of Mrs Blossom, The (film) |
1968 |
Shirley MacLaine, Richard Attenborough |
Taplow |
6106 painted in psychedelic livery |
Camomile Lawn, The (television film) |
1992 |
Felicity Kendal |
Didcot Transfer Shed |
|
Carrie’s War (television film) |
2004 |
Keeley Fawcett |
Didcot Transfer Shed (as Paddington station) |
|
Danish Girl, The (film) |
2015 |
Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander |
Didcot Engine Shed (as Copenhagen and Paris stations) |
5322, 9002 |
Elephant Man, The (television film) |
2003 |
|
Didcot Transfer Shed |
3822 |
Francois (Proof of concept film) |
2018 |
Daniel Francois-Smith |
Didcot Engine Shed |
1289 |
Genius (film) |
2016 |
Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman |
Didcot Engine Shed (as New York Central) |
5322, 92, 93, 9002 |
Heroes of Telemark, The (film) |
1964 |
Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris |
Southampton Docks |
Bonnie Prince Charlie |
Ike: The War Years (television film) |
1979 |
Robert Duvall, Lee Remick |
Marylebone station, London |
6998 and GWR coaches |
Incredible Sarah, The (film) |
1976 |
Glenda Jackson |
Didcot Engine Shed (as Dover and Paris stations) |
7808 |
Louis Wain (film) |
2020 |
Benedict Cumberbatch |
Didcot Railway Centre |
|
Meetings with Remarkable Men (film) |
1979 |
Dragan Maksimovic |
Didcot Lifting Shop (as an Asian locomotive works) |
5051 |
Most Reluctant Convert, The (film) |
2021 |
Max McLean |
Didcot Transfer Shed, Oxford Road platform, main entrance platform |
2999 |
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (film) |
1975 |
Derek Nimmo |
Marylebone station, London |
5322 |
Paddington 2 (film) |
2017 |
|
Coal stage |
|
Partners in Crime (television series) |
2016 |
David Walliams, Jessica Raine |
Didcot Engine Shed (as Paris) |
9112 |
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (film) |
2011 |
Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law |
Didcot Engine Shed (as a German armaments factory) |
3738, 6697 |
Thank You Comrades (television film) |
1978 |
Ben Kingsley, David Howey, Michael Troughton |
Didcot Engine Shed |
ASMO van decorated as a Russian cinema train |
These Foolish Things (film) |
2006 |
Charlotte Lucas |
Didcot Transfer Shed |
1340 |
Three Men in a Boat (television film) |
1975 |
Tim Curry, Michael Palin, Stephen Moore |
Didcot Engine Shed (as Waterloo station) |
5322 |
Wolvercote Tongue, The (television, Inspector Morse) |
1987 |
John Thaw, Kevin Whately |
Didcot Railway Centre (as itself) |
6106 |
Young Winston (film) |
1972 |
Simon Ward, Edward Woodward |
Craig-y-Nos (South Wales) |
1466 as South African War armoured locomotive |
Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year being filmed in the Transfer Shed at Didcot Railway Centre
Title |
Date |
Presenter and production company |
Location |
Locomotives and rolling stock |
Age of Steam (television documentary) |
2003 |
Fred Dibnah |
Didcot Railway Centre |
5051 |
Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year |
2017 |
Channel 4 |
Didcot Railway Centre Transfer Shed |
4144 |
Antiques Road Trip |
2021 |
Phil Serrell BBC 1 |
Didcot Railway Centre Transfer Shed and Museum |
|
Architecture the Railways Built |
2021 |
Tim Dunn Yesterday |
Didcot Railway Centre continuity shots |
|
Blue Peter |
1985 |
Simon Groom BBC |
Didcot Railway Centre |
|
Brilliant Brunel (television documentary) |
2010 |
Dan Cruickshank National Geographic |
Didcot Transfer Shed |
Fire Fly |
Brunel Documentary |
1984 |
Chris Hughes TVS |
Didcot Railway Centre |
|
Chemistry: a Volatile History |
2010 |
Jim Al-Khalili BBC 4 |
Didcot Railway Centre |
3650 |
Collecting Now |
1983 |
BBC Filming |
|
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C. S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia (television documentary) |
2005 |
Anton Rodgers |
Didcot Railway Centre |
|
Great Britons, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (television documentary) |
2002 |
Jeremy Clarkson |
Didcot Broad Gauge Railway |
|
Great British Railway Journeys: Windsor to Didcot (television documentary) |
2011 |
Michael Portillo |
Travelling Post Office apparatus |
5322, TPO coach 814 |
Great Western Journey |
1985 |
BBC |
|
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Impressionists; Painting and Revolution, The (television documentary) |
2011 |
Waldemar Januszczak |
Didcot Transfer Shed |
Fire Fly, 190 |
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace |
2021 |
ITV 1 |
Didcot Railway Centre Museum |
7371 |
Nature of Britain |
2007 |
Alan Titchmarsh |
Didcot Railway Centre |
|
Treasure Hunt |
1985 |
Anneka Rice Chatsworth Television Ltd |
Didcot Railway Centre |
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Trainspotting Live (live broadcast several days) |
2016 |
Peter Snow, Hannah Fry BBC |
Didcot Railway Centre |
3650, 6023 |
War Heroes (television documentary) |
2010 |
Dan Cruickshank National Geographic |
Didcot Railway Centre |
5322 |
Wildlife on Railways |
1985 |
BBC |
Didcot Railway Centre |
|
Queen during filming of Breakthru’ with locomotive 3822.
Title |
Date |
Artists |
Location |
Locomotives and rolling stock |
Breakthru’ |
1989 |
Queen |
Nene Valley Railway |
3822 |
Don’t Start Without Me (Christmas video) |
2018 |
The Fizz |
Didcot Halt |
4144 190 |
One Great Thing |
1986 |
Big Country |
Didcot Railway Centre |
9017 |
Title
|
Date |
Student and University |
Location |
Locomotives and rolling stock |
Brunel and the Original High Speed Railway |
2020 |
Adam Landau University of Kent Journalism project |
Didcot Railway Centre Museum and Transfer Shed |
2999 |
Steaming Giants |
2019 |
Scott Dance University of West London |
Didcot Railway Centre Engine Shed and Transfer Shed |
Fire Fly |
Student Project |
2019 |
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham |
Didcot Railway Centre Didcot Halt |
Young Winston, the armoured train battle being filmed in South Wales
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