[John Webb]

This film, starring Peter Sellers and others, features a large chunk of action in the vicinity of a level crossing.

Early in 2008 some of us were trying to identify the location of this crossing - see Wrong arm of the law, Unidentified railways scenes so I flag up the reshowing of this film in case someone can add to the clues about the location.

Regards,
John

 

[John Webb]

Thanks for that - someone has obviously updated the IMDB since I looked at it last year when the question first arose.

Regards,
John

 

[John Webb]

Looking at my London Atlas, Fairfax Road runs parallel to the railway line, but there is a "Bushy Park Road" which looks as though it once crossed the railway and which also crosses Fairfax Road. So it looks a very promising site - especially as the line from the level crossing site goes away in a long straight line as we see in the film.

I'll try a bit of Google Earth and see if that can confirm the location.

Regards,
John

 

[John Webb]

I've looked at the above location in Google Earth and I think it can be eliminated. In particular there is absolutely no sign of the gas holders visible not far beyond the crossing. The housing looks very well established, so I don't think they've been built on a gas-holder site. Ah well, just have to keep on looking!

Regards,
John

 

[John Webb]

Thanks to frame69 we have a solution - see Wrong arm of the law, Unidentified railways scenes - the crossing was on Bushy Park Road but was known as Fairfax Road crossing. The adjacent gasholders have been demolished and the area built on since the filming.

Regards,
John