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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.
It was directed by Tony Thompson, with a tongue-in-cheek poetic commentary written by Paul Le Saux.〔 Retrieved 4 February 2008.〕 It is also notable for its music by Clifton Parker, who also wrote the score for ''Blue Pullman'' and several other British Transport Films.〔 He was later to write the music for the 1959 version of ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'', which also features an A4.
==Synopsis==
The film follows the preparation behind the service, as well as focusing on one particular journey. The 'star' of the film is the Gresley A4 60017 ''Silver Fox'', although the film makes a point of featuring many railway employees, for example the maintenance men, the driver and fireman and the station master at Waverley Station "who has a very high sense of occasion". The train completes its journey in its timetabled 6hrs 30mins.
It is still highly regarded for its well-filmed sequences by cinematographer Billy Williams showing the operation of the East Coast main line and the Gresley A4 as it was in mainline use, for example the water scoop and corridor tender, although the whimsical verse commentary dates the work considerably.〔''The Railway magazine'', Volume 149, 2003. p.30〕 The film also offers a social record of the different hierarchies existing within the railway, as well as the fashion and people in the 1950s, albeit in a romanticised portrayal.〔''(Elizabethan Express )'' at Moving History. Retrieved 4 February 2008.〕
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