Rail Scenes with Locations
Best feature films that include scenes on railways, railroads, or railway stations. The list includes a brief description of the railway scene, together with the location where the scene was shot. It also includes at least one film for every year from 1936 onwards, and films from as many of the countries of the world as possible.
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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie MannheimA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.Based on a Richard Hannay spy story by John Buchan, and contains a classic scene of a train crossing the Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland. This bridge is now a World Heritage Site, and there are plans to provide it with a Visitor Centre. See also the 1959 remake of the same title.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsFarley GrangerRobert WalkerRuth RomanA psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.Station shots at Union Station, Washington DC, Penn Station NY, and Danbury Station, Connecticut.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMargaret LockwoodMichael RedgravePaul LukasWhile travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.Best aboard-rail vanishing trick, with romance, set in pre-war Europe on the way to London.
Some rail scenes were shot on the Longmoor Military Railway Hampshire, UK. - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Card sharping on a train ride from Joliet to Chicago. Portrays Action on The 20th Century Limited, and has shots taken at Union Station and La Salle Street Station, Chicago.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordKatharine RossIn 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South America.The robberies of the "Union Pacific Flyer" were filmed at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railway, Durango, Colorado, USA.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordKelly McGillisLukas HaasWhile protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.A young fella's wondrous first train ride, and a wait in the railway station (Philadelphia 30th Street), where he sees the WWII memorial statue of The Angel of Resurrection. Fear, excitement, and retribution follow.....
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsMeryl StreepJack NicholsonJeff DanielsShe's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.Don't flash your jewellry on the subway train, especially in front of young ambitious actors!
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsFrank SinatraTrevor HowardRaffaella CarràAn American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.By train through Italy and Switzerland. Film shots made at Santa Maria Novella station, Florence, Italy, and at Passo Malaga, Spain.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.“It’s got to be the train, baby, straight down the line!”. Has noir shots at Glendale Station, Burbank.
- DirectorLionel JeffriesStarsDinah SheridanBernard CribbinsWilliam MervynAfter the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.Said to be the finest children's film ever made in Britain. Filmed on the Keighley and Worth Valley heritage railway, with the Oakworth station as it actually is, even now.
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsSean ConneryRobert ShawLotte LenyaJames Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.Best ever two man fight in a railway carriage. Station shots at Istanbul Sirkeci, Zagreb, and Belgrade railway stations.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsTom CruiseJon VoightEmmanuelle BéartAn American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.A helicopter chases an electrified high speed train. Actually, shot on the un-electrified Glasgow/Dumfries line in Scotland! It also has scenes taken at Liverpool Street Station, London.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsCelia JohnsonTrevor HowardStanley HollowayMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.Best ever tear-jerker on platforms and in tea-rooms; filmed at Carnforth Station, Lancashire, England. “It may change your view of railway stations forever”.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsAlec GuinnessPeter SellersCecil ParkerFive oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.Deadly deeds around King's Cross railway station, and Copenhagen Tunnel, London - but in the end the railway strikes back!
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichClive BrookAnna May WongA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.Train scenes from Peking to Shanghai.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack HawkinsBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.Best stiff upper lips in the jungle and on a rail bridge; a mock-up bridge was built in Sri Lanka for filming. In Videos, watch the first clip!
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsMichael CaineNigel GreenGuy DolemanIn London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.Murder in a railway carriage; filmed at Marylebone Station, London.
- DirectorDavid GreenStarsPhil CollinsJulie WaltersLarry LambBased on the story of Ronald Christopher "Buster" Edwards (Phil Collins), one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.Starts with Britain's richest ever train hold-up and heist. Filmed on the heritage Great Central Railway, with Loughborough standing in for Glasgow Central; the actual robbery took place on the ex-LMS line at a railway bridge in Buckinghamshire. This film, and the event, are parodied in Number 371 q.v.
- DirectorPeter HowittStarsGwyneth PaltrowJohn HannahJohn LynchAfter personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.Doorways of one life, in the London Underground. Filmed at Waterloo & City Line (Bank and Waterloo), and at Embankment and Fulham Broadway stations.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsMaggie SmithRonnie BarkerChris CooperAn unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.A dire event aboard a train, and the lives played out thereafter.
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsKathy BatesJessica TandyMary Stuart MastersonEvelyn, an ordinary housewife, visits a nursing home and befriends the old lady Ninny. Together, they bond over stories from the past about two intrepid women of Whistle Stop Cafe.A whistle stop on a railroad, with a steam loco and high danger. The trestle bridge was filmed at Whitesburg, Georgia.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsWil WheatonRiver PhoenixCorey FeldmanA writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.The classic railway bridge scene - who/what gets across first?
The trestle bridge location is Burney, CA; also the Gooseline Railroad, Cottage Grove, OR, the McCloud River Railroad McCloud, CA,and the Yreka Western Railroad, Yreka CA were used in the film. - DirectorCharles SturridgeStarsHelena Bonham CarterJudy DavisRupert GravesAfter a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.A journey via an Italian railway station, filmed at Caprarola Railway Station, Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
- DirectorDavid LelandStarsCatherine McCormackRachel WeiszAnna FrielThree young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II, and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset, where the experience changes their lives forever.Scenes taken on the West Somerset Railway, an operating heritage steam railway in Somerset, England.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsEdward FoxTerence AlexanderMichel AuclairIn the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.After hiding his weapon in his car in a garage underneath railway arches in Crecy, the Jackal gets to Paris by passing guards at Tulle railway station, (see a wheel-tapping sequence), with his train arriving into Gare d’Austerlitz, Paris. It is reported that the Tulle shots were actually taken at Veynes.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.Has chase scenes on the on the elevated railway of the NY Metro. For full details see http://www.railserve.com/trainmovies/
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAva GardnerStewart GrangerBill TraversAnglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.Rail-side events at the break-up of India post-war. Shots taken on the Lahore & North Western Railway, Lahore Station, and on the Longmoor Military Railway England.
- DirectorDanny BoyleLoveleen TandanStarsDev PatelFreida PintoSaurabh ShuklaA teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.Best ever dance scene in a railway station (which used to be called Victoria Terminus), Bombay.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.The most evil use of a railway ever. Has rail shots filmed in Poland.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSteve McQueenJames GarnerRichard AttenboroughAllied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.The railway scenes at the end of the escape were shot at Neustadt on the Hamburg to Munich line.
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsDavid NaughtonJenny AgutterJoe BelcherTwo American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.Blood in the London Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station! See http://tinyurl.com/bky7osx.
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsSteve MartinJohn CandyLaila RobinsA Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.A train breakdown in Missouri, and sympathy on the Chicago Elevated.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsDaniel CraigEva GreenJudi DenchAfter earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.Agents Bond and Vesper Lynd engage in verbal foreplay on the train to Montenegro.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsFranka PotenteMatt DamonChris CooperA man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.A film shot taken at the Gare du Nord, Paris.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.In a dark world, a fight on a subway track in front of an on-coming train; shot in Sydney, Australia.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsSean ConneryMichael CaineChristopher PlummerIn 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.At an Indian railway station two men meet a writer who then records their story.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsJudy DavisVictor BanerjeePeggy AshcroftCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.A ride on the Marabar Express, with shots at Ramanagarem, Srinagar, and Udhaganmandalem.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsMaggie SmithHelena Bonham CarterDenholm ElliottLucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?Scenes shot on the Bluebell heritage railway, at Horsted Keynes, England.
- DirectorDanny DeVitoStarsDanny DeVitoBilly CrystalKim GreistA bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?“Every great romance or mystery should have a train”.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.Scenes taken in Grand Union Station and on The 20th Century Limited. Has an "into the tunnel" ending!
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAlbert FinneyLauren BacallIngrid BergmanIn December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.Station scenes at Gare de l’Est, Paris, other shots in rural France.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsWill HayMoore MarriottGraham MoffattWith the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.A classic pre-war Will Hay comedy and "comic masterpiece of British Comedy". It is set on "The Southern Railway of Northern Ireland" but was actually shot on the (now dismantled) Basingstoke & Alton Light Railway and on the ex-London & South-Western main line. Contains a number of very dangerous comedy shots on a parallel with those in No. 97!
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsStanley HollowayGeorge RelphNaunton WayneVolunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.Shot on extinct lines in North Somerset, England, and also has a shot taken at Bristol Temple Meads Station.
- DirectorPaul Andrew WilliamsStarsLorraine StanleyGeorgia GroomeJohnny HarrisDesperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.An electrified ride to a seaside town; pimps, prostitutes and gangsters travel from London. Grim scenes shot at Victoria, Waterloo and Brighton stations. Contrast with the 1947 film ‘Brighton Rock’. The film "Train to Kandy (2012)" is a remake of this, and moves the setting from England to Sri Lanka.
- DirectorChris ColumbusStarsDaniel RadcliffeRupert GrintEmma WatsonAn orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.Railway scenes also repeated in "- Chamber of Secrets", "- Prisoner of Azkabhan", "- Goblet of Fire", and "- Order of the Phoenix". All feature a departure from Platform 9 3/4. Also shots on the Glenfinnan viaduct on the West Highland Line, Scotland.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordSean ConneryAlison DoodyIn 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.Train shots taken at the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic RR, Chama, New Mexico.
- DirectorPeter FaimanStarsPaul HoganLinda KozlowskiJohn MeillonAn American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.Best scene on a crowded subway platform. Also the “knife” scene at Brooklyn Bridge subway exit!
- DirectorBrian LevantStarsIce CubeNia LongAleisha AllenTo impress a foxy divorcee, ladies' man Nick offers to take her kids on an extended road trip, unaware of the torture he's in for.A scene filmed at the main Vancouver station with a Canadian Via Rail train. Also a ride on a freight train chased by a horse!
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsGene WilderRichard PryorJill ClayburghOn a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.The film nominally portrays a wacky west to east ride on the Amtrak Southwest Chief route from Los Angeles to Chicago. It has an “AmRoad” train and scenes of Los Angeles Union Station, Kansas City, and “Chicago” where it comes to rest! There are spectacular running train and train-yard shots, some made in Canada.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.Travel to Washington Union Station - with a view of the Capitol from the station hall - provides the inspiration for Mr Smith's legislation!
- DirectorJan de BontStarsKeanu ReevesDennis HopperSandra BullockA young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.Final scene in subway.
- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsColin FarrellBrendan GleesonCiarán HindsAfter a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.Contains a hit-man's train journey in Belgium.
- DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsMatt DamonGwyneth PaltrowJude LawIn late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.Seeking friendship on a train journey across Italy.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsWilliam HoldenNancy OlsonBarry FitzgeraldA sharp-eyed woman spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress.The old Los Angeles station recalled - a noir thriller starting with a provincial station shot at Westhampton, Pasadena, and with subsequent train running and interior shots ending at Union Station, Los Angeles. Following shots were taken on the Elevated railway at Third Avenue, New York. There are also impressive scenes taken in Union Depot stockyards, and underground on a goods transfer rail boxcar system with overhead electrification.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsWalter MatthauRobert ShawMartin BalsamFour armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?Scenes at Grand Central Terminal, New York. For details see http://www.railserve.com/trainmovies/
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.Instead of commuting to work, a man travels the opposite way - to Montauk on the Long Island Railroad - to think things over on the sea-shore.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsWill SmithAlice BragaCharlie TahanYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.A destroyed world includes the former Grand Central Terminal, NY.
- DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsTommy Lee JonesWill SmithLinda FiorentinoJames, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.Includes a chase scene at Grand Central Terminal.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsHarry BelafonteDorothy DandridgePearl BaileyContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast."Whizzin' away along the track, clickety clack, clickety clack." Features the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing at Moorpark, California.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJeff BridgesRobin WilliamsAdam BryantA former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.A round-the-clock ballroom dance in Grand Central Terminal! Compare the dance with that in “Slumdog Millionaire” (No. 28).
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoSean PennPenelope Ann MillerA Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.Opening and ending in Grand Central Terminal, New York. The finale is an elevated railway ride to GCT to catch an Amtrak train to Miami, and the best ever shoot-out in a mainline railway station with escalators!
- DirectorBarbra StreisandStarsBarbra StreisandNick NolteBlythe DannerA troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.After demons from the southern past are exorcised, there is a brief New York scene at Grand Central Terminal, and boarding a Metro train.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.Escape from the Mob on the railway
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBarry FitzgeraldA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.An arrival at a country railway station in Galway.
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsJohn LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonOver two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.Marylebone Station, London, Crowcombe Heathfield on the heritage West Somerset Railway, and other railway shots.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonVanessa RedgraveSet in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.Shots of Bewdley station, on the heritage Severn Valley Railway, England.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsEric PortmanSheila SimDennis PriceThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.Wartime Anglo/American meetings at a small railway village in Kent. Includes scenes filmed at Selling and Canterbury West stations.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsRoger MooreMaud AdamsLouis JourdanA fake Fabergé egg recovered from the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to uncover a jewel smuggling operation led by the mysterious Octopussy, and a plot to blow up a NATO air base.A nuclear bomb set to go off in Germany, filmed on the Nene Valley Railway, England.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsGeorge ClooneyJohn TurturroTim Blake NelsonIn the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.Escaping convicts jump a train, but soon get off!.
- DirectorLexi AlexanderStarsElijah WoodCharlie HunnamClaire ForlaniA wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.Scenes at Bank and East Finchley Underground stations, London, and a train trip to Manchester abruptly stopped short at Macclesfield - see Trailer!
- DirectorDon TaylorMike HodgesStarsWilliam HoldenLee GrantJonathan Scott-TaylorDamien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.Best Horror Genre rail death!
- DirectorTony GilroyStarsJulia RobertsClive OwenTom WilkinsonTwo ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.A short early scene - two agents pass by at Grand Central Terminal, New York - but keep your hair on for later!
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsKelly McGillisJeff DanielsMandy PatinkinIn 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.Set in 1951, has an early scene on the New York Metro at Forest Parkway. Later the ending is at Grand Central Terminal with astonishing scenes of train service in that era, a chase down and up in the GCT, and a breathtaking finale in the roof.
- DirectorRoger DonaldsonStarsJason StathamSaffron BurrowsStephen Campbell MooreMartine offers Terry a lead on a foolproof bank hit on London's Baker Street. She targets a roomful of safe deposit boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry along with a treasure trove of dirty secrets.Scenes at Paddington Station, London.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsTopolNorma CraneLeonard FreyIn pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.A daughter takes the train to Siberia.
- DirectorMikael HåfströmStarsClive OwenJennifer AnistonVincent CasselWhen two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.A couple meet on the train into Union Station, Chicago. Be careful who you talk to on trains!
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsJohn BarrymoreCarole LombardWalter ConnollyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.A meeting on a famous named train.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKevin CostnerSean ConneryRobert De NiroDuring Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.Dramatic scenes on the station steps.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGary CooperGrace KellyThomas MitchellA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.The villain arrives on the mid-day train; see Trailer. Shots taken on the Sierra railroad, Jamestown, CA.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.A no-show at Vienna station, and a later departure.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsCleavon LittleGene WilderSlim PickensIn order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.Railroad scenes filmed at Vasquez Rocks Park 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Road, Agua Dulce, CA. What befalls a member of a railway construction gang!
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsGary KempMartin KempBillie WhitelawThis fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.Gritty post-war East End London gangsters. A scene set in 1942 shows Bethnal Green Underground Station in war-time use as an air-raid shelter during the Blitz. However the shot was actually filmed at the Aldwych station.
- DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsRalph FiennesRachel WeiszDanny HustonA widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.Train and track scenes in Nairobi, Kenya, and Eurostar travel from Waterloo to Berlin Hbf to sort out big pharma trouble.
- DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsAudrey TautouMathieu KassovitzRufusDespite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.A couple meet through photo-booths at Paris train stations.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.Heroic desert story with train wreck, shoot-out, and looting. Train shots were filmed in Andalucia, Spain.
- DirectorJohn BoultingStarsRichard AttenboroughHermione BaddeleyWilliam HartnellIn Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.Has an opening scene at Brighton Station, ex BR Southern Railway.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsBen KingsleyJohn GielgudRohini HattangadiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.Experience a train ride on the Bombay, Baruda and Central India Railway with scenes taken in Udaipur.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsWendy AllnuttColin FarrellMalcolm McFeeThe working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.Train scene at Brighton Station.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne BancroftA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.A drama set in about the year 1900. On the Elephant Man's return to London from his captivity in France, there is a brief train running scene shot on the Severn Valley Railway, and a crowd scene shot at Liverpool Street Station, London.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.The winter scenes of the family traveling to Yuriatin by rail were filmed in Canada. One train scene became notorious for what befell the actress who slipped clambering onto a moving train. Although she fell under the wagon, she escaped serious injury. It is reported that part of the shot of her accident of was used in the film's final cut.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinJulien CaretteSimone SimonIn this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.Made with the full co-operation of the then steam-based SNCF (French national) railway; includes impressive shots of train running, loco workshops, and rail-yards between Paris St. Lazare and Le Havre stations.
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsAlbert FinneyShirley Anne FieldRachel RobertsA rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.Working peoples' lives in gritty 50's Britain: smoky trains and steam whistles in background.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsOwen WilsonAdrien BrodyJason SchwartzmanA year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.Three men on a train filmed on the Indian North Western Railway in Rajasthan. Lots of internal and external rail scenes, including all final credits over a view from the carriage window.
- DirectorDon SiegelClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodAndrew RobinsonHarry GuardinoWhen a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.A train ride in San Francisco.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsMel GibsonRay WinstoneDanny HustonAs homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the murder of his activist daughter, he uncovers a corporate cover-up and government conspiracy that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.Sinister events after an arrival at South Station, Boston.
- DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.Starts with a train arrival in pre-war Berlin, actually filmed in Lubeck main station; also a scene at the S-Bahn Savignyplatz station in Berlin.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonMarion MackGlen CavenderAfter being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.Now recognised as one of the best classics of the silent era, this film has Buster Keaton performing very dangerous slapstick comedy filmed on a logging railroad in Cottage Grove, Oregon. The story is based upon a real event which took place in 1862 in the American Civil War on the Western & Atlantic Railroad between Chattanooga and Marietta, as is also the Disney film made 30 years later (No. 292).
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsAlex DescasMati DiopNicole DoguéThe relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.A train-driver's outlook on his daughter. Railway shots on the Paris regional express railway (RER) at Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est.
- DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.<A Jules Verne story set in around 1872. An adventurer travelling from London has an arrival at the Gare du Nord, Paris, rides a steam train in India shot in Sylhet Bangladesh, a US ride filmed on the Durango & Silverton Railway, Colorado, and finally catches a London train from “Liverpool”. In the US it has scenes of a sail-propelled railcar, and of buffalo stampeding over a railway line.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsMatt DamonEdgar RamírezJoan AllenJason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.Bourne makes an escape at Waterloo station, London.