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Mr Damphool

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:54 pm
by 52D
Anyone else seen the animated LNER safety film of the above name and was there more than one made.

Re: Mr Damphool

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:33 pm
by hq1hitchin
Yes, but a very long time ago - from memory, was it post-war and one shot featured a Thompson vehicle, a door being thoughtlessly swung open and catching somebody at ballast level in the face, or am I thinking of something else?

Re: Mr Damphool

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:36 pm
by 52A
Can't remember that film, though I have worked with a few! Anyone remember the Third Sam?

Re: Mr Damphool

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:42 pm
by hq1hitchin
52A wrote:Can't remember that film, though I have worked with a few! Anyone remember the Third Sam?
Indeed I do - it featured Crewe driver Bill Norburn, who was a traction inspector when I first knew him in the 1970s, then he became a traincrew supervisor there. The money on shifts would have been better. Sadly, long gone to that great messroom in the sky.

Re: Mr Damphool

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:58 pm
by 52D
HQ1 thats the one i saw it Monday night at an LNER film show. Mr Damphool is a shadow like cartoon character that uses up all his nine lives in railway accidents, getting his head banged twice in the shunting move that you refer to.