Elizabethan Express

Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley along the East Coast Main Line. Although originally intended as an advertising short, it now acts as a nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex LNER Class A4.

Elizabethan Express
LNER Class A4 60017 Silver Fox at London King's Cross railway station
Directed byTony Thompson
Written byPaul Le Saux
Produced byEdgar Anstey
Narrated byAlan Wheatley
Howard Marion-Crawford
Music byClifton Parker
Distributed byBritish Transport Films
Release date
  • 1954 (1954)
Running time
20 minutes
LanguageEnglish

It was directed by Tony Thompson, with a tongue-in-cheek poetic commentary written by Paul Le Saux. It is also notable for its music by Clifton Parker, who also wrote the score for Blue Pullman and several other British Transport Films. He was later to write the music for the 1959 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, which also features an A4.

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