It was only a matter of time before the Children's Film Foundation turned it's attention to locomotives and the emphasis here is on thrills, spills and slapstick (including a presumably unscripted collision between Ronnie Barker's head and a lamp the makers kept in), thus prompting a warning by Talking Pictures about attempting the stunts depicted in this film.
Shot on attractively wintry locations with a harmonica score evoking 'Genevieve' and a climax reenecting that of 'Oh! Mr Porter'. Between battling daleks tousle-haired tyke Roberta Tovey (who Launder & Gilliatt sure missed a trick by never casting her as a St. Trinian's first former) tangles with pompous bowler-hatted railway official Hugh Lloyd wielding Dr Beeching's axe; followed by the usual pair of crooks with Ronnie Barker's McCann to Sidney Tafler's Goldberg.
Shot on attractively wintry locations with a harmonica score evoking 'Genevieve' and a climax reenecting that of 'Oh! Mr Porter'. Between battling daleks tousle-haired tyke Roberta Tovey (who Launder & Gilliatt sure missed a trick by never casting her as a St. Trinian's first former) tangles with pompous bowler-hatted railway official Hugh Lloyd wielding Dr Beeching's axe; followed by the usual pair of crooks with Ronnie Barker's McCann to Sidney Tafler's Goldberg.