The Titfield Thunderbolt is Ealing Studios' first colour comedy. The film was shot on location during the Summer of 1952, with Woodstock in Oxfordshire doubling as the village of Titfield; Bristol as ...

Porter and the droll BBC miniseries Love on a Branch Line, Charles Crichton’s 1953 Ealing comedy, the first shot in Technicolor, celebrates the English love of rural railways run by unworldly ...

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan may have been thinking about The Titfield Thunderbolt when he made his often misquoted "never had it so good" speech in 1957. Released four years earlier, Ealing's ...

It is not often the theatre provides an evening of unadulterated fun. But that is the case with The Titfield Thunderbolt. The talented cast, headed by the ageless Kate O'Mara, gently send up the old ...

The scene painted a rose-tinted picture of an English countryside that now seems lost for ever. Steam trains chugged cheerfully through tree-lined cuttings while eccentric vicars, a handsome young ...

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Titfield is a small English village which gets worked up when the government decides to close the unprofitable branch railway line. The vicar and the squire are both railway enthusiasts and are ...