Does anyone know for sure where the railway in the woods was / is? The place where the book people hang out? Is it still there?
I've seen the railway in the woods location used in another film or TV series but can remember which. Does anyone know?
It is Black Park, immediately to the west of Pinewood Studios and not far from where I have lived most of my life. The track, buffer stop and carriage—all part of a temporary outdoor film set—I saw one winter day as a child in company with my mother and paternal grandmother (and the latter's retinue of miniature poodles). No filming was being done, so I cannot claim we saw François Truffaut or any member of cast or crew, which is a pity. A few years later I saw the film on television.
It is, don't you agree, a sad and singularly haunting film—one imbued, moreover, with a sense of civilisation endangered, of centuries of culture and learning reduced for ever to ash?