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[[File: Miss_Marple_DVD.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Miss Marple DVD box set]]'''4.50 from Paddington''' is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November 1957.<ref name=wikipedia>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.50_from_Paddington 4.50 from Paddington on Wikipedia] (retrieved 7 January 2017)</ref> Mrs. McGillicuddy, a friend of Miss Marple's, sees a woman being strangled in a train running parallel to her own. When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists professional housekeeper Lucy Eyelesbarrow to go undercover.<ref name=IMDB>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092497/ Internet Movie Database] (retrieved 7 January 2017)</ref>
The BBC produced a series of twelve made-for-TV films between 1984 and 1992 under the original series title of "'''Miss Marple'''", all starring Joan Hickson as Jane Marple. '''4:50 from Paddington''' was the ninth of the series and was first broadcast on 25 February 1987. It also featured Mona Bruce as Mrs. McGillicuddy and Jill Meager as Lucy. The series is available on BBC DVD as 'The Miss Marple Collection'. The Internet Movie Database lists the individual films under the longer title of 'Agatha Christie's Miss Marple:'.<ref name=IMDB/>. The film includes several references to the crime taking place on the day of the launch of Sputnik I, dating it to October 1957.
==Filming on the SVR==
Filming saw the most intense use of the railway since [[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution]] involving multiple locos and sequences of parallel running trains. At least 300 yards of track was re-laid on the [[Stourport Branch | Stourport branch]] and [[Kidderminster Loop Line]] sections for this purpose.<ref>SVR News 86</ref>. [[80079]] was the locomotive used on the 4:33 train, while former resident [[6960|6960 Raveningham Hall]] was the locomotive for Mrs. McGillicuddy’s 4:50 train. [[GWR Small Prairie 4566]] was also used in filming.
The first railway scene, which is set at Paddington, was not actually filmed on the SVR. A porter explains to Mrs. McGillicuddy that she should not board the first train, the "4:33 stopping at all stations to Brackhampton", as it will be overtaken by the next departure, the 4:50, before reaching her destination. Mrs McGillicuddy therefore boards the latter train from which she watches the 4:33 depart. This scene contains several anachronisms:
*After 1951 [[Carriage and Wagon numbering |GWR carriages were renumbered]] with additional letters to account for the introduction of Mk 1 stock. However the carriages seen on the 4.33 at Paddington still have (fictional) GWR-style numbers like 6041 rather than the period correct W6041W. They also carry simple "G.W.R" and "Great Western Railway" lettering; it is likely that stock used at Paddington would have been repainted into BR(W) livery by that time.
*Although the locomotive seen hauling the 4.33 as it departs carries a smokebox number 8009780079, it is actually a Southern Region tender locomotive.
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