THE HUMAN JUNGLE: Conscience on a Rack (one for Railway enthusiasts)

[Anthony McKay]

THE HUMAN JUNGLE: Conscience on a Rack (Roy Baker: Feb 1964)

Unknown 1 – Finding herself facing a tunnel on a railway line, Dorothy Wyley (Flora Robson) hears the whistle on an oncoming train and turning around she begins to run, but falls onto the tracks. The approaching locomotive exits the tunnel and runs over Wyley, who suddenly wakes up from her nightmare.





Unknown 2 –The approaching locomotive.


Probably stock footage.

Unknown 3 – After her appointment with Dr Corder, Dorothy Wyley returns to the school on a steam train, which travels along an embankment.




Probably stock footage.

[Alan F]

Unknown 3 looks like left over footage from Margaret Rutherford’s “Murder She Said”. If so, then it’s Amerden Lane near Taplow.

[Arthur Linden-Jones]

Unknown 2 - any closer shots of the locomotive (LNER or LMS origins)?

Surrounds very reminiscent of approaches to Liverpool Lime Street.

[glyn horton]

The locomotive in Unknown 2 is an Austerity ex War Department eight coupled loco. They were heavy freight engines which worked throughout the network - although similar I think it's unlikely the location is approaching Liverpool Lime Street - the cutting there is more deeper and these locos would generally not have worked into a major terminus station like Lime Street. Possibly the Midland line out of St Pancras where it passes through Kentish Town and West Hampstead.

[Alan F]

The best match for unknown 1 that can find is between South Hampstead station and Primrose Hill Tunnel. The first picture would be the now disused platform at South Hampstead and the three columns to the right would be the bridge that carries the Marylebone – Aylesbury line.
This photo that I found shows that the cutting leading to Primrose Hill tunnel is held up by substantial brick buttresses just like those in the second picture.

[Alan F]

While watching one of my Christmas presents (don't ask), I found this.



This is the east end of Belsize (Fast) Tunnel, not on the same line as South Hampstead, but only a mile away.
The arches support the retaining walls between Dunboyne Road and Kingsford Street.