Elizabethan Express

Elizabethan Express

20 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1954

Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. Although originally intended as an advertising short, it now acts as a nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.

Elizabethan Express

20 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1954

Elizabethan Express
Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. Although originally intended as an advertising short, it now acts as a nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.
Producers British Transport Films
Original title Elizabethan Express
Directors Tony Thompson
Writers Paul Le Saux

Cast

Alan Wheatley

as Narrator