Location Ideas?

[TrevorJ]

The attached is a still from a 1935 film 'Anything to Declare?'. It shows an A3 on the middle road of a reasonably sized station with a covered footbridge with at least three staircases. Any suggestions as to where this might have been?

[StevieG]

No attachment to be seen TrevorJ (?)

[TrevorJ]

Whoops! Sorry about that - having problems adding attachment. Need to do some homework!

[Hatfield Shed]

Even without benefit of picture, the description fits Welwyn Garden City. (Four track ECML, two island platforms with the outer faces serving the Hertford Luton and Dunstable branches, covered footbridge with stairs down to both platforms, and a final stairway on the East side for staff foot access to the yard. Good aerial shot in 'London's Railways from the Air'.)

There was a motion picture studio on the East side of the line which makes it a likely location for obtaining such footage. These buildings had distinctive arched facades to the railway side, post war housing the 'Polycell' business.

(WGC is one of the very few completely new build stations constructed by the LNER, replacing some very basic halts further North as the branches diverged from the ECML alignment.)

[Mickey]

The attached is a still from a 1935 film 'Anything to Declare?'. It shows an A3 on the middle road of a reasonably sized station with a covered footbridge with at least three staircases. Any suggestions as to where this might have been?

Going on what Hatfield Shed posted above a dvd called Steam On 35mm The 30s, 40s, 50s & 60s and narrated by the late John Huntley a movie film insider/historian & railway enthuiast features many perfesionally shot squences of railway films from the aforementioned decades of the big four grouping companies and amongst the LNER sequence sevearal Gresley A3s are filmed at speed hauling express passenger trains passing through Welwyn Garden City station in b&w possibly during the mid/late 1930s including in one rare sequence the loco 'Hush Hush' puts in an appearence and is briefly seen trundeling through the south end of WGC station along the Up slow line hauling a dynomomiter car!.

Staem On 35mm The 30s, 40s, 50s & 60s https://www.video125.com/products/steam-on-35mm

The dvd is available from Video 125 and was originally released on video cassette back in 1989 but was subsequentely released on dvd.

[TrevorJ]

Have now managed to attach the still. I also posted on a Facebook page and the responses were that this was Wood Green, so the mystery is solved. Thanks to Mickey and Hatfield Shed for your comments.

[manna]

G'Day Gents

My first thought was Wood Green (home station).

manna

[silverfox]

Yes
The public footbridge can just be seen at the rear just below the station overbridge