West Somerset Railway - Films and Television

Films and Television

Several films and television programmes have been shot on the railway:

• A Hard Day's Night (1964) featured The Beatles and was filmed in 1964 at London Marylebone station and on the Minehead branch, much of it in and around Crowcombe.
• The Belstone Fox (1973), a children's film, partly shot along the line near Crowcombe (village), chronicling the life of a fox much smarter than the dogs that hunt him.
• The The Flockton Flyer (1976-7) was a children’s television drama series about a preserved railway that was filmed on the West Somerset Railway shortly after it reopened.
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988), a BBC television mini-series was filmed at Crowcombe Heathfield.
• Poirot (1990) "The Cornish Mystery", part of the detective series with David Suchet playing the main character. Although set in Cornwall external shots were filmed at Blue Anchor station and Dunster village.
• The Land Girls (1997) was filmed on the railway and Crowcombe Heathfield featured as Bamford station.