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Atacced are a couple of stills from a 1975 movie, Overlord,which are stock footage used to represnt a troop train departing from a station in the build up to D-Day.
The loco is a D16/3 carrying white discs on either side of the buffer beam. I belive I am right in saying that, apart from the Southern Railway, it was only the former Great Eastern section of the LNER which used white discs. Therefore I presume we are looking at somewhere in East Anglia?

Any ideas please?

Another still of this train (Imperial War Museum ref HS37567), taken a moment after the second still reproduced above, appears in 'Great Eastern Journal' 74 p28.

The caption tells us that No 8797 is leaving Newmarket for Cambridge on 7 April 1944 with a train conveying men and equipment of the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards to their invasion concentration area in Hampshire.

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Many thanks, Darryl. That all makes sense as the movie was made in collaboration with the IWM and used some of the Museum's archive.

The film clips from which this was taken are online on the IWM website, here is Part 3 which shows 8797 going past.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item ... 1060008434

I think the photos from the original post might have come from Part 2. There are also clips of B12 (8538, 8557), B17 (2819 Welbeck Abbey) and J19 (8269), and J20 (8294)