The full-size locomotive is in the collections of the Science Museum Group, but many more have enjoyed ownership of their own Flying Scotsman locomotives thanks to the beautifully scaled models made by toy manufacturer Hornby, like this example in our collection. Following the successful tour of Australia, Flying Scotsman ran special trains around Britain, including regular runs over the famous Settle to Carlisle Railway and trips hauling the prestigious Orient Express Pullman train. Moore Marriott, best known as Will Hay’s ancient foil in the railway classic Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) and other Hay comedies, plays Old Bob, a 30-year veteran driver of the express service (which started in 1862). The day before retiring, he shops his stoker Crow (Alec Hurley) for drinking on duty. His place is taken by jeering rookie footplateman Jim (24-year-old Ray Milland in his debut), who the night before Bob’s final run is rescued from a dancehall fracas by the driver’s daughter, Joan (Pauline Johnson), though neither knows the other’s identity; kisses ensue. That this refined beauty was sitting alone in what looks suspiciously like a clip joint adds unintended frisson. The Big Shakedown • Easy to Love • Hi, Nellie! • Massacre • Bedside • Dark Hazard • Mandalay • As the Earth Turns • Fashions of 1934 • I've Got Your Number • Heat Lightning • Jimmy the Gent • Journal of a Crime • Wonder Bar • Registered Nurse • Harold Teen • A Modern Hero • Upperworld • A Very Honorable Guy • Merry Wives of Reno • Smarty • Twenty Million Sweethearts • The Merry Frinks • Fog Over Frisco • The Key • He Was Her Man • Dr. Monica • The Circus Clown • Return of the Terror • The Personality Kid • Midnight Alibi • Side Streets • Here Comes the Navy • Friends of Mr. Sweeney • The Man with Two Faces • Housewife • The Dragon Murder Case • Dames • Desirable • British Agent • A Lost Lady • The Case of the Howling Dog • Big Hearted Herbert • Kansas City Princess • Madame Du Barry • 6 Day Bike Rider • I Sell Anything • Happiness Ahead • The Firebird • The St. Louis Kid • Gentlemen Are Born • I Am a Thief • Flirtation Walk • Babbitt • The Church Mouse • Murder in the Clouds • The Secret Bride • Sweet Adeline

All of the stunts were filmed on the moving locomotive with the actors. Most dangerously, at one point actress Pauline Johnson walks along the edge of the moving train wearing high heeled shoes, transferring from the coaches to the locomotive while travelling at speed. [2]

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The first half of this obscure movie is silent and we don't see any railway action. This starts in the second half, as does the sound. The engine's fireman sets out on his last trip before retirement. The previous day, he reported his driver for being drunk and gets suspended for this. He is on the train to get his revenge. The driver's daughter is also aboard. The suspended driver gets out of his carriage and goes to the engine by walking along the roof of the train, followed by the fireman's daughter. A fight breaks out when he arrives and the loco is uncoupled from the rest of the train, a points change just avoids a collision. After things have calmed down, the train continues its journey and arrives in Edinburgh on time, despite the delay. The development of the Art Deco style in the 1920s, which flourished in the 1930s, saw art and design embrace industry for the first time in an assertively modern style. Art Deco was obsessed with travel and speed, and new forms of transport in a decade that saw land, air and water speed records being broken year on year. Artists sought to convey luxury, movement and speed in a futuristic, abstract new style. Chasing Liberty • Torque • The Big Bounce • Clifford's Really Big Movie • Starsky & Hutch • Spartan • Taking Lives • Bad Education • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed • The Whole Ten Yards • New York Minute • Troy • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban • House of Flying Daggers • A Cinderella Story • Catwoman • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light • Exorcist: The Beginning • Laura's Star • The Polar Express • Alexander • Ocean's Twelve • Million Dollar Baby • The Aviator Köstebekgiller 2: Gölgenin Tılsımı • Her Şey Aşktan • How to Be Single • Osman Pazarlama • Midnight Special • Seytan Tüyü • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice • Julieta • The Man Who Knew Infinity • Barbershop: The Next Cut • At the End of the Tunnel • Keanu • Terra Formars • The Nice Guys • Me Before You • The Conjuring 2 • Central Intelligence • The Legend of Tarzan • Lights Out • Suicide Squad • War Dogs • The Age of Shadows • Sully • SMS für Dich • Storks • The Girl with All the Gifts • Canım Kardeşim Benim • The Accountant • Within • May God Save Us • Rus'un Oyunu • Museum • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them • Villaviciosa de al lado • Monster Strike The Movie • Collateral Beauty • Live by Night • Vier gegen die Bank Pauline Johnson was a leading British silent actress of her age, although appeared in few films after 1930. Moore Marriott was only 41 when he appeared in the film, but is already portrayed playing a retiring engine driver.

Racing Stripes • The Phantom of the Opera • Constantine • Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous • House of Wax • Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants • Batman Begins • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory • The Island • Must Love Dogs • The Dukes of Hazzard • A Sound of Thunder • Corpse Bride • The Little Polar Bear 2: The Mysterious Island • Duma • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang • North Country • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • A Night Full of Rain • An Enemy of the People • Crossed Swords • Straight Time • The Medusa Touch • It Lives Again • The Sea Gypsies • Big Wednesday • Capricorn One • The Swarm • Hooper • Girlfriends • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? • Bloodbrothers • The Great Bank Hoax • Movie Movie • Superman • Every Which Way but Loose While the plot is a bit thin and predictable, it is very well made, particularly the sequences on and of the train, the famous Flying Scotsman that runs from Edinburgh to London. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre • My Girl Tisa • They Made Me a Fugitive • April Showers • Winter Meeting • To the Victor • The Woman in White • Silver River • Wallflower • The Big Punch • Romance on the High Seas • Key Largo • Embraceable You • Rope • Two Guys from Texas • Johnny Belinda • Smart Girls Don't Talk • June Bride • Fighter Squadron • Adventures of Don Juan • The Decision of Christopher Blake • Whiplash The day before his retirement an old engine-driver reports his stoker for being drunk. The stoker is fired and warns that he will make trouble for the driver and crew. On the day of the last run, the driver’s daughter is on the train and notices that the ex-stoker is also aboard, unaware that he intends to separate it from its carriages – with disastrous consequences.A Child Is Born • Brother Rat and a Baby • The Fighting 69th • British Intelligence • Calling Philo Vance •