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Old January 31st 04, 11:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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I seem to remember the train in the film was above street level,
which makes me think that bit might have been filmed south of the
river,
perhaps in Battersea or Vauxhall. (though locals in Ebury Bridge
Road
told me the film, at least the bombed bits, was filmed in Chelsea).
If it was a tube train though, I wonder could it have been on
what's now the Hammersmith, on the elevated stretch, by Latimer
Road say?


My recollection of "Passport to Pimlico" is that the train was in a
cut and cover tunnel or cutting or both. It is only 40 years ago!

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Colin Rosenstiel


Can't find the original posting, but the location details below were
taken from:

http://www.britmovie.co.uk/studios/e...graphy/52.html

The casting of Passport to Pimlico, while using many familiar Ealing
faces, is particularly happy. The genial grocer, Pemberton (Stanley
Holloway), is admirably contrasted with the timid, precise bank
manager, Wix (Raymond Huntley), while outsiders include a delightfully
absurd history professor (Margaret Rutherford) and a Burgundian duke
(Paul Dupuis) who dashes a girl's romantic dreamt of Dijon with chat
about the trams in the main square and cement factories. Basil Radford
and Naunton Wayne personify Whitehall red tape. The irony of the
situation is best summed up by the grocer's wife who, when it is
suggested they are now a bunch of foreigners, declares: We always were
English, and we always will be English, and it’s just because we're
English we’re sticking out for our right to be Burgundians! Much of the
film was shot on an outdoor set built on a cleared bomb site off the
Lambeth Road, a mile to the east of real Pimlico, although the original
title was kept largely for its curious foreign sounding quality and
pleasing alliteration.


No reference to the UndergrounD shots, though. :-(

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Colin Rosenstiel