1947 film - Holiday Camp

[hq1hitchin]

All the usual suspects plus an LNER tankie (A8?) and teak stock, together with some equally fine 'road motors' - a Leyland TD7? In this film, looks like Willesden driver Ted Hardcastle has a completely different family. Perhaps he was later done for bigamy?

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[third-rail]

All the usual suspects plus an LNER tankie (A8?) and teak stock, together with some equally fine 'road motors' - a Leyland TD7? In this film, looks like Willesden driver Ted Hardcastle has a completely different family. Perhaps he was later done for bigamy?

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anyone know the station first thoughts yorkshire ??

[Solario]

The station is almost certainly between Scarborough and Saltburn and I think that it is probably Sandsend, just north of Whitby. I am sure that someone will come up with a better answer.

[PinzaC55]

Definitely Sandsend, and the holiday camp is Filey.

[coachmann]

The leading coach arriving at the camp was a Crossley petrol. I read an enginemans memoirs while convalesing last year. He regularly worked the Whitby line with a 4-6-2T after the war and as the book progressed he talked about the forthcoming nationalization and also some filming that was done for a movie. Maybe this was the movie!

[PinzaC55]

The leading coach arriving at the camp was a Crossley petrol. I read an enginemans memoirs while convalesing last year. He regularly worked the Whitby line with a 4-6-2T after the war and as the book progressed he talked about the forthcoming nationalization and also some filming that was done for a movie. Maybe this was the movie!

It must have been the movie. It was released in 1947 so presumably filmed in 1946 one year after the war ended. The curious thing is why did they use Sandsend with it's narrow platform and steep approach road when they could have used spacious Filey Holiday Camp station with it's miniature road train?

[StevieG]

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[52D]

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Well what with Stevies dire warning i decided to have a look results;- Is the loco No.9852 and the bus outside is it owned by United i have been trying to work out both.

[coachmann]

The locos looks to be No. 8851. The Crossley single decker bus arriving at the camp belongs to Boddys. Not sure about bus outside the station though.

[third-rail]

never got the dire warning the first time i openeed it , did just now though.

[Wavey]

[quote="
It must have been the movie. It was released in 1947 so presumably filmed in 1946 one year after the war ended. The curious thing is why did they use Sandsend with it's narrow platform and steep approach road when they could have used spacious Filey Holiday Camp station with it's miniature road train?[/quote]

Filey Holiday camp station is down as opening on 10th May 1947 so that would explain why filming in 1946 did not use it.

[coachmann]

Having said it was a Crossley petrol single decker, I'm now wondering if it is an Albion. The rads were similar although it still looks to have a coptic cross on the badge.

[PinzaC55]

[quote="
It must have been the movie. It was released in 1947 so presumably filmed in 1946 one year after the war ended. The curious thing is why did they use Sandsend with it's narrow platform and steep approach road when they could have used spacious Filey Holiday Camp station with it's miniature road train?

Filey Holiday camp station is down as opening on 10th May 1947 so that would explain why filming in 1946 did not use it.[/quote]

The Internet Movie Database says it is Filey http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040443/locations

The presumably was my word. Doubtless they must have filmed it before the camp was open.

[md644]

I'd always assumed that Sandsend was used because it was so very obviously at the seaside (I can't think of another station anywhere near Filey that is so close to the sea).

AFAIK Filey Holiday Camp was built before the war but not opened, and used by the RAF for "the duration". I think it opened for holidays in summer 1945 within weeks of VE day.

Looks like a United Bristol L (or possibly Bristol J) picking up at the station, not sure about the Boddy's coach further on, though you can see a couple of East Yorkshire single deckers behind. More East Yorkshire buses at the end (Leyland TD4/5 double deckers IIRC, haven't watched through to the end of the film on YT).

[52D]

This picture taken from Ken Hooles book North Eastern Stations a pictorial history confirms that Filey Holiday Camp station was not very attractive so Sandsend some 35 miles away was chosen instead. The loco is Scarboroughs A8 No.9881 specially cleaned for the occasion.