Nene Valley Railway - As A Film Location

As A Film Location

The line has been a location for a number of films, TV shows, and music videos.

Scenes from the James Bond film Octopussy were shot here and Castor church can clearly be seen in the background, even though this section of the film was set in West Germany and East Germany (pre unification).

Also, the Bond film Golden Eye was filmed on the line. For the film, a Class 20 was disguised as a Russian armoured train. In the film, a tunnel that the train seemingly goes into is in fact a small bridge over the tracks.

BBC TV drama "Casualty" has also filmed here.

Between 1977 and 1979, many sequences for the BBC's wartime drama Secret Army were filmed here, principally at Wansford station, notably in the episodes: The Hostage, A Matter of Life and Death and The Last Run.

In Spring 1989, the rock band Queen shot a video at the railway called "Breakthru" that reached number 7 in the British charts. They are filmed on a steam train (a GWR 2884 Class, No.3822 from Didcot, repainted) that was given the name 'Miracle Express' after the title of their 1989 album The Miracle.

In October 2008, the filming of the musical Nine, starring Penélope Cruz and Daniel Day-Lewis, took place at Wansford.

In November 2009, ITV spent three days at the Nene for their remake of 'Murder on the Orient Express' for Agatha Christie's Poirot Series. They used the BR Standard Class 5 73050 'City of Peterborough' numbered '305' and the Belgian Coaching Stock, with most filming taking place at Ferry Meadows.

In September 2010, scenes were filmed for the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, on the line, in which characters Janine Butcher and Ryan Malloy were trapped on a level crossing with a train approaching them.