Charming and quaint are words often associated with Ealing Comedies as well as having a streak of anti-establishment.
During the days of the nationalisation of the railways this is a film of a romantic bygone age but its less successful more known for its nostalgia than substance.
Some of the locals with the financial help from the squire who has been promised early morning booze on the train rally around to take over the local branch line which is being closed down by British Rail.
The local bus company is none too pleased and plotting to derail the project.
With all the skullduggery, some of the villagers try to convince the government inspector that the branch line should be run permanently by them.
There are times the locals appear from nowhere to keep the locomotive going but given Naunton Wayne the town clerk discovers that the bus company have been up to no good he does little to grass them up to the government inspector.
Its sporadic fun with enough local colour such as the enthusiastic vicar, the poaching engine stoker, boozy squire but the script never catches speed.
During the days of the nationalisation of the railways this is a film of a romantic bygone age but its less successful more known for its nostalgia than substance.
Some of the locals with the financial help from the squire who has been promised early morning booze on the train rally around to take over the local branch line which is being closed down by British Rail.
The local bus company is none too pleased and plotting to derail the project.
With all the skullduggery, some of the villagers try to convince the government inspector that the branch line should be run permanently by them.
There are times the locals appear from nowhere to keep the locomotive going but given Naunton Wayne the town clerk discovers that the bus company have been up to no good he does little to grass them up to the government inspector.
Its sporadic fun with enough local colour such as the enthusiastic vicar, the poaching engine stoker, boozy squire but the script never catches speed.