Talk:Night Mail

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Removed "move to Wikisource" banner on the grounds that I've added some encyclopedic info. I'm not at all certain about the copyright status, though, as it is a 20th century work. Lee M 02:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

When re-watching a video I'd made some years ago of the Channel 4 showing of the film, the numbers on the front of the engines are rather too blurred for recognition, but don't look at all like 6115. At Crewe the engine shown arriving as the narrator states that "the scheduled stop for the postal special is 13 minutes" has a number that looks rather like 6523. Just at the end the camera pans over engines at Glasgow Central and shows "Seaforth Highlander" with its number painted on the side ending in 08, which ties in with LMS Royal Scot Class listing it as 6108. At Crewe an engine with 2933 on its side is shown arriving twice, before and after the postal special arrives, and one with a blurred number which may be 1073 is also shown arriving before the postal special. The glimpses of the sides of the postal special locomotive don't seem consistent, and when searching for a source for the "6115" claim found this discussion which seems very probable. The cleaned up DVD may show the numbers better. I was also unable to find the point in the film that the image was taken from: the sky is black above the shots showing a close up of the front: the image seems to have come from Britmovie and may not be from the film. All in all it's quite likely that the film had more than one "star" and a cite is needed for the claim. ...dave souza, talk 10:26, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I came across this link for the poem: worth adding? ..dave souza, talk 10:32, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original is on youtube

Worth including? Night Mail Graldensblud 21:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)