In message , Nick Cooper
writes
You'd think at least they get an updated one that omits Aldwych, and
has the Jubille extention and the Victoria goign to Brixton....

But you need a passport for Pimlico....
--
Kat Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:09:59 +0000, Kat
wrote:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
You'd think at least they get an updated one that omits Aldwych, and
has the Jubille extention and the Victoria goign to Brixton....

But you need a passport for Pimlico....

Obviously an alternative universe, as there wasn't a sub-surface line
running through Pimlico at the time the film was made/set!
--
Nick Cooper

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On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:09:59 +0000, Kat
wrote:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
You'd think at least they get an updated one that omits Aldwych, and
has the Jubille extention and the Victoria goign to Brixton....

But you need a passport for Pimlico....

Obviously an alternative universe, as there wasn't a sub-surface line
running through Pimlico at the time the film was made/set!

But there must have been *some* sort of Underground line, since the film
shows a train being stopped and boarded by Stanley Holloway for passport
checks before being allowed into Pimlico. I can't remember whether it was a
tube or subsurface train :-)

PaulO

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(Paul Oter) wrote:

"Nick Cooper" wrote in
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:09:59 +0000, Kat
wrote:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
You'd think at least they get an updated one that omits Aldwych, and
has the Jubille extention and the Victoria goign to Brixton....

But you need a passport for Pimlico....

Obviously an alternative universe, as there wasn't a sub-surface line
running through Pimlico at the time the film was made/set!

But there must have been *some* sort of Underground line, since the film
shows a train being stopped and boarded by Stanley Holloway for passport
checks before being allowed into Pimlico. I can't remember whether it
was a tube or subsurface train :-)

It was a District Line train, presumably near Victoria.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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?

In article ,
(CharlesPottins) wrote:

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!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(CharlesPottins) wrote:

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!

--
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.

Roger

Nick Cooper wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:09:59 +0000, Kat
wrote:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
You'd think at least they get an updated one that omits
Aldwych, and has the Jubille extention and the Victoria
goign to Brixton....

But you need a passport for Pimlico....

Obviously an alternative universe, as there wasn't a
sub-surface line running through Pimlico at the time the
film was made/set!

But have the boundaries of this outpost of the Duke of Burgundy's estate
been defined?

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:33:43 +0000 (UTC), "Cast_Iron"
wrote:

Nick Cooper wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:09:59 +0000, Kat
wrote:

In message , Nick Cooper
writes
You'd think at least they get an updated one that omits
Aldwych, and has the Jubille extention and the Victoria
goign to Brixton....

But you need a passport for Pimlico....

Obviously an alternative universe, as there wasn't a
sub-surface line running through Pimlico at the time the
film was made/set!

But have the boundaries of this outpost of the Duke of Burgundy's estate
been defined?

It's fairly clear in the film - I checked last time it was one, and
it's nowhere near any contemporary underground line.
--
Nick Cooper

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