The A1 Class in Popular Culture
An A1X class locomotive, Stepney appears in Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine, one of the books in The Railway Series of children's books written by the Rev. W. Awdry. Boxhill was referred to in a later book in the series: Thomas & the Great Railway Show.
The 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania includes a sequence shot on the Bluebell Railway which features No.72 Fenchurch smashing a grand piano left on the line while running at speed (actually filmed with the engine running at 25 mph, the speed limit of the line, with the film speeded up for impact).
A 1961 film version of Anna Karenina, parts of which were filmed on 'The Bluebell Railway', included No.55 Stepney disguised as a Russian locomotive.
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