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'''Simon Magus ''' was a 1999 British mystery film directed by Ben Hopkins and starring Stuart Townsend, Rutger Hauer, Sean McGinley, Noah Taylor and Ian Holm.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus_(film) Simon Magus (film) on Wikipedia]</ref>  The film is set in 19th century Silesia (then in Prussia, now in Poland with scenes )<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesia Silesia on Wikipedia]</ref>, where a new railway line is to be driven between two villages. Whichever one gets a station will prosper, the other will not. Scenes featuring [[GWR Pannier 7714]] were filmed on the SVR in the spring of 1998.The locomotive was "...''thinly disguised in an attempt to make it look Polish by putting masking tape over its smokebox and builder's plate and a few Polish eagle stickers on the tank sides''"<ref>SVR News 127, pp.38-39.</ref>. ==See also==*[[List of film and TV productions filmed on the Severn Valley Railway]] ==References==<references/>

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus_(film) Simon Magus (film) on Wikipedia]<br>*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161977/ Simon Magus on IMDb]<br>*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzX_f-aqRHo Film trailer on YouTube]