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* [[Silver Blaze]] (1977) <ref name="EH">Display board in [[The Engine House]]</ref>
* [[Sorry!]] (1983)
*From the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidderminster_Town_railway_station Wikipedia entry for Kidderminster Town]: In spring 2012, the station was a filming location of the fantasy adventure movie "The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box"
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This is an incomplete page gives a list of film, TV and similar productions filmed on the railway.It is a comprehensive list as far as possible, particularly with regard to the Film and TV Drama/Comedy sections, but is potentially incomplete.
== Film ==
* [[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution]] (1976)
* [[Candleshoe]] (1977)
* [[The Thirty Nine Steps]] (1978)
* [[Hanover Street]] (1979)<ref group="note">Filming took place, it is unclear if this was used in the cinema release</ref>* [[The Elephant Man]] (1980)
* [[The Weather In The Streets]] (1983) <ref name="EH" />
* [[On the Black Hill]] (1988)
* [[Howards End]] (1992) <ref name="EH" />
* [[The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain]] (1995)
* [[Feast of July]] (1995)
* [[Simon Magus]] (1999)
* [[Unconditional Love]] (2002)
* [[The Chronicles Of Narnia]] (2005) <ref name="EH" />
* [[Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows]] (2011)
* [[The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box]] (2014)
* [[The Black Prince]] (2016)
===Note===
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== TV Drama and Comedy ==
* [[Doctor in Charge]] (1972)
* [[The Incredible Robert Baldick]] (1972)
* [[The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady]] (1983)
* [[Carrie's War]] (1973)
* [[The Signalman]] (1976)
* [[Survivors]] (1977)
* [[Silver Blaze]] (1977) <ref name="EH">Display board in [[The Engine House]]</ref>
* [[A Man Called Intrepid]] (1979)
* [[God's Wonderful Railway]] (1980)
* [[The Good Soldier]] (1981)
* [[Sorry!]] (1981/86)
* [[L For Lester]] (1982)
* [[Doctor Who (Black Orchid)]] (1982)
* [[The Fasting Girl]] (1984)
* [[The Box Of Delights]] (1984)
*'''River Walks''' (BBC 2018) Series 1, Episode 11 'The Severn' broadcast 10 December 2018. Shobna Gulati takes a revealing stroll through Shropshire and Worcestershire beside our longest river. The programme sees Shobna travel back from Bridgnorth on the footplate of 43106 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0btrpht/episodes/player BBC programme guide]
*'''Midlands Today''' (BBC 2019) broadcast 23 July 2019. Item on an inspiring group of children from Belarus recovering from cancer, visiting the UK with the Solihull group of the Chernobyl Children's Project UK. They came to spend a morning on the Railway and enjoyed their time out along the line.
*'''Train TuckersTruckers''' (UKTV 2019) Series 1, Episode 1 broadcast 30 August 2019. Series following Allelys heavy-haulage specialists transporting locomotives. Included footage of the delivery of [[BR Standard Class 7 70000 Britannia|70000 Britannia]] from Crewe to Bridgnorth on 4 September 2018.*'''Midlands Today''' (BBC 2019) broadcast 14 November 2019. Railfuture West Midlands spokesman Colin Major appears on the BBC Midlands Today evening news from Kidderminster station to talk about what Railfuture means by a "bigger better railway", and what we want from the political parties.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNlq5ZLPzl8 YouTube (Retrieved 19 November 2019)]*'''Midlands Today''' (BBC 2020) broadcast 21 January 2020. [[Falling Sands Viaduct]] began carrying locomotives in 1878. The viaduct has started to crack due to water seeping into the seven arches. The SVR secured £1.3m funding to save the viaduct, with £853,000 from the [[:Category:Lottery funding|National Lottery Heritage Fund]]. A [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hereford-worcester-51179941/urgent-repairs-for-severn-valley-railway-viaduct-in-kidderminster?fbclid=IwAR2VNn5vF0NS6S8UeagX3HdQYSdH48DJtNTx0OVG2BsJgUOmrBu-LexCVsg| 1m 53sec item] with footage from Sammy B Films, includes interviews with Jonathan Symonds, civil engineer, and Lesley Carr from the [[Severn Valley Railway Charitable Trust Ltd|SVR Trust]].
==TV Commercials and other==
* History of Railways Magazine commercial<ref name="SVR24" /> (1971), filmed at Bridgnorth featuring 46443
* Walls’ Ice Cream commercial<ref name="SVR24" /> (1972), filmed at Bridgnorth featuring [[GWR 2251 Class 3205 | 3205]], 46443 and 686 The Lady Armaghdale
* Nat King Cole LP commercial<ref name=SVR115>SVR News 115</ref> (circa 1978) including 46443
* TV advert for Swan Vesta matches (1980s) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBL71A3XRc0 YouTube]
* Game for a laugh<ref name="EH" /> ([[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 1980-1989#1981 |1981]]), item featuring musician and entertainer Joe Brown firing [[BR Riddles 4MT 80079|80079]].
* Wish You Were Here (BBC TV 1995), feature on ‘holidays for the disabled’ in Shropshire, including locomotive 4566 and newly converted wheelchair-friendly coach [[BR 80776 Brake Gangwayed | 80776]] <ref>SVR News 113</ref>.
* Blue Peter (BBC TV 1995), feature on the SVR Steam School with presenter Diane Louise Jordan<ref>SVR News 117</ref>.
* TV advertisement for a laptop computer (1998) filmed on platform 1 at [[Bewdley]] with [[46521|Ivatt class 2 46521]].<ref>Photo in SVR News 127</ref>
* 'The Boxer' by Whalebone, music video shot at [[Eardington]]<ref>Eardington Halt [sic] featured as a location for a music video for acoustic trio Whalebone's version of the Simon & Garfunkle classic The Boxer (Heritage Railway 6 July 2011, p. 22)</ref> (2011) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FgtP7tpg1A YouTube]
* 'If You Were My Boyfriend' by The Yearning, music video (2014), filmed at Bridgnorth featuring 5643 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm5PT0QuoTs YouTube]
*From the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Valley_Railway Wikipedia entry for the SVR]: Bridgnorth station was used in 1981 as part of a sketch for the TV comedy Not the Nine O'Clock News. In the sketch, Mel Smith's character observes a steam train passing by without stopping and refers to it as an "old chuffer", forming part of a sequence of puns around the protagonist's wife.
*From 'Severn Valley Railway memories' by Christopher Magner, p47 (Self published, 1997, no ISBN number) "Good publicity was obtained [in 1966] when BBC television made a film on the preservation scheme for the Today programme"
