Blue Pullman (1960)
25 minutes - Colour
A new luxury express is put through its paces. This film looks over the shoulders of a select band of craftsmen, technicians and operators, whose combined skills ensure that a train journey becomes a delightful experience.

Producer: Edgar Anstey
Director: James Ritchie
Editor: Hugh Raggett
Writer: James Ritchie
Photography: David Watkin & Jack West
Music Composition: Clifton Parker
Conductor: Muir Mathieson
Recording: Ken Cameron
Unit Manager: David McKeand
Production Assistants: David Gladwell & Brigit Barry

16mm & 35mm

Additional information: Click HERE to view a website on the history of these once prestigeous units at railcar.co.uk.

A Yahoo E-group exists for anyone interested in the erstwhile British Rail Blue Pullman sets which operated between London and Manchester / Birmingham / South Wales. Please feel free to contribute any photographs, memories, etc. Click HERE for more details.

A still from the 1963 BTF Catalogue.

Actual screen shots reproduced by kind permission
of the British Film Institute.


This film won the Silver Cup in 1965 at Genoa, Italy

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