Re: "Day of the Roses" filming locations

["The Fourth Warrior" <dave@detankard.u-net.com>]

Good on yer Chris, thanks fer that. I've always taken an interest in
railways, even before I could walk, I think.

TFW


NB    To our resident "Tosspot" on uk.local.southwest;  no I have never
owned an Anorak!
so don't even think about it, even if you were able.



Chris Stratton wrote in message <71angl$t7n26@atbhp.corpmel.bhp.com.au>...
>>
>"The Day of the Roses" was a two part television show (mini-series) based
on
>the Granville rail crash of 1977. The first part ran about 2 hours and the
>second about 2.5 hours, including ads. Although the show was basically
fact,
>it was dramatised to make it make appealling to television viewers. The
>scene was re-created in Toombul in Brisbane for the filming. The scenes of
>the train before the crash were filmed where the train actually ran in the
>Blue Mountains, using 4638 from the Rail Transport Museum which was
>re-numbered 4620 for the show, the real 4620 was scrapped. The name of the
>show comes from an event which started recently on the anniversary of the
>accident where people gather at Granville to remember the victims and they
>throw roses on the tracks.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Chris Stratton
>Wollongong, NSW, Australia
>stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au
>
>