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__NOTOC__'''The Good Soldier ''' was a Granada TV play first broadcast in 1981, based on the 1915 novel of the same name by Ford Madox Ford. It is a romantic tragedy about two turn-of-the-century couples - one American, one British - who regularly holiday together at a spa in Germany.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085022/ Internet Movie Database] (retrieved 18 February 2016)]</ref>
Stars included Jeremy Brett (best known for the 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' series) as Edward Ashburnham and Robin Ellis (best known as Captain Ross Poldark in the BBC classic series 'Poldark')as John Dowell<ref>.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier Wikipedia] (retrieved 12 November 2015)</ref>.
==Filming on the SVR==
Two days of scenes were shot at [[Arley]] during autumn 1980,<ref>SVR News 57</ref>, with the broadcast taking place in April 1981. YouTube footage shows In the first scene Leonora Ashburnham describes how many years earlier her husband had been involved in a scandal after 'comforting' a distressed servant girl in a railway carriage compartment. The incident, seen as a short flashback, was filmed in a GWR compartment in the vicinity of the [[Accommodation bridge near Severn Lodge|County boundary]] with Bromley Farm visible on the hilltop in the background. In the second longer scene, [[GWR Pannier 5764]] and two GWR carriages travelling northwards from the main platform arrive at [[Arley|Arley's platform 1]], where Dowell and Ashburnham escort Nancy Rufford onto the train. The train then departs northwards, while the scene ends with a shot of the outside of the station as the characters two men depart by horse carriage. Links to both scenes on YouTube are included below.
==See also==
==Links==
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/30/good-soldier-ford-madox-ford-100-best-novels Robert McCrum, 'The 100 best novels: No 41 - The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)', The Guardian 30 June 2014]<br>*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I26ciWs1Gjo zA0PjehNE9Q&feature=youtu.be&t=1000 The Good Soldier on YouTube(first scene)] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA0PjehNE9Q&feature=youtu.be&t=5772 The Good Soldier on YouTube (from 1:36second scene).]