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'Elizabethan Express' is an example of a widely released British Transport Film (BTF) film which focussed directly on rail travel, this film features the express locomotive Silver Fox which travelled from London’s King’s Cross to Edinburgh – a distance of 393 miles in six and a half hours. In 1954 this was the longest daily non-stop run in the world to be timed at over 60mph. Apart from the film’s obvious interest for transport historians, it can be studied in the context of numerous others held in the NFTVA, including for example, the 1957 BTF film 'Holiday', which features the seaside resort of Blackpool. From the early ‘Phantom Ride’ films onwards numerous non fiction films have been structured around a train journey and this is one of the most famous. Like the earlier and even better known GPO film 'Night Mail', the film also juxtaposes visual image with music and specially written rhyming commentary. |
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