I've just noticed that the Titfield Thunderbolt is available on iPlayer and I've also just noticed that i can't sleep

so join me while i make dumb posts about a movie I adore or basically

film thread time The opening is perfect; we see an express thundering by, only to pan under the bridge & see a ramshackle branchline train toodle past, our true focus

This opening is perfect because it's a funny subversion and it has a Bulleid pacific, one of the two proper locos in this film

The Railway Series: my characters' personalities are based on traits of the real loco types, drawing upon their actual histories and filtering their duties through the British class system to define their dynamics

All Engines Go: theyre called Jiff & Riff idk make em toasters Less than 10 years ago, we got Stephen, who was fully based on Stephenson's Rocket; his looks, his history, his name, even his personality as a former 'high speed' engine who has long been made obsolete and has to come to terms with his age

and now we have jiff and riff