Amberley Chalk Pits was one of the 1st places my nan took me exploring when we moved over here from Canada when I was 9. It still holds a very fond place in my heart and is an exceptional day out. There's also a pub across the way from the entrance where once a chap so arrogant that I knew he was so at an age where I hadn't learnt the word tied his boat up & was told he should do so above the jetty stanchions support bars as the river was fairly tidal. He of course proclaimed he knew better and when we returned later for a coke before getting the train home I got to see my first flooded boat and weeping man combo & learnt a critical life lesson in the importance of listening to others.
As an American, I think "Well I happened to be in the area, you know" is a beautifully British reason to make a video about a filming location for a middling James Bond film from the 80's
We are local and love to visit here and watch the movie itself. Always makes my daughter laugh when the airship disappears over the quarry face and is suddenly over the Golden Gate Bridge. Movie magic!
If you fancy another bond themed outing, both Octopussy and Goldeneye’s train scenes were filmed here on the Nene Valley railway. There is also a prototype Hover train in the Museum for extra content opportunities.
@@emjackson2289 I used to work in a warehouse that backed onto the railway coming into Clapham Junction and one afternoon in around the middle of 1994 a strange looking train went slowly past heading towards Clapham Junction. A year later I went to the cinema to see Goldeneye and what did I see the exact train which I had seen a year earlier now being used as Alec Trevelyan's Command Train
A stuntman friend, now sadly passed, worked on this film. He recounted a story of the scene on the golden grate bridge where one of the characters jumps from the airship onto the bridge. A stuntman collegue enquired as to how they would film it. He was told that they wold shoot the establishing shot on the bridge itself and recreate the location in the studio for the jump itself. He asked how much that would cost and was quoted a figure. He then said that, if they gave him half of that, he would perform the jump for real.
@@davidbull7210 Ooh I'm not sure. Quite possibly though. The same people did the stunts for quite a few Bond films. And the tales they told from the days before CGI...
@@KravKernow The days before CGI was when Bond stunts looked actually believable and when you could watch them frame by frame without any cameras shaking for no good reason (the bad reason being hiding the bad CGI). By the time of Quantom of Solace they tried to make the Bond movies look and feel like Bourne. That was when I started losing interest, which makes me sad.
@@fisk0 More like Napoleon, both small men with huge egos and cruel, with no regards for their troops or people. Even less for foes. Both told only what they want to hear. We know what eventually happened to Napoleon.
Its a brillaint place, Amberly. The old phone exchanges and power station bits and pieces are worth a look, as is the bus museum. Hope you had a good look around ;-)
A tip when you go there - make a note of the telephone numbers whenever you see a phone - the whole system is live (within the museum) so you can make random calls to any other number. People are fascinated when they pick up a ringing phone and you can have some great conversations! Including the old engineer mischief of "we're trying to track a fault on this line, ..." followed by "... would you mind holding the receiver nearer the ground to see if that helps, please?"
I enjoyed my most recent visit to Amberley but what made it especially memorable was that the train's trainee driver passed his exam and became a fully-fledged driver. What a lovely moment to witness. : )
Reminds me of the story of “The Ace of Spades” album cover by Motörhead. It has a bit of an American western theme - and the guys thought that by doing that; they’d get to fly over to the US to shoot it. Turns out the record company shot it at a mine in the UK lol. Great video as always
Jago, not sure if you picked up any more rail related video material at Amberley, but one thing I did see there were some small trucks with metal silhouettes of tanks on top. These were used along the coast at Seaford on tracks laid along the cliff edge. The army used them for aiming practice by releasing them one at a time down the track under gravity and firing out to sea. At night the trucks were connected and pulled back up the track by an engine for the next day. Of course, the local teenagers, including my Dad, used to climb on them at night and ride them down the track, necessitating another return pull by the engine in the mornings!
The target trolley at Amberley is powered by a small diesel engine. From what I could see it ran till a lever on the truck hit a lever by the track and then stopped or possibly reversed. The army still use something similar at Lulworth Ranges, there is a quite complicated track layout. It looks as though it might be electrified with a centre conductor rail but that was looking from a couple of miles away through binoculars. If it was electrified it would not be too difficult to change the speed or stop or reverse the target. Unfortunately the targets are kept in a shed and when they are out the area is closed due to people firing tank shells !
The wagon in the museum is the one Bond and Stacey rode in. It's different from the others in having a rounded off edge to the skip rather than a sharp edge, so was chosen to be the one they hid in so that Roger and Tanya didn't cut themselves climbing in and out.
I very much enjoy View to a Kill. Walken is an ace villain, Tibbet is a wholesome ally, the theme song goes hard and the bridge fight is nothing short of awesome. Although I’ve watched the film a good few times, I didn’t realise the mine exterior was in the UK. Shows what the magic of the filmmaking can do!
My first mine that I worked at in Timmins Ontario Canada used Hudson cars for moving crushed rock for ballast, our ore cars were 5 ton side dumping Granby cars built by Wabi Iron works out of New Liskeard ON. We also had 2 Clayton (UK) 5 ton overhead wire trolley locomotives used to haul waste rock from the #8 Shaft sinking project in the 1980s....BTW I am a fan of both industrial railways and of course underground mining as I was an underground miner for 43 years.
A surprising little video, but oh so good! I went to the cinema to see the film when I was a teen. Mainly because I was (and am) a Duran Duran fan. Glad that you like the theme song ;)
I've been to the Amberley museum a couple of times for classic car shows and then there's The Engine Shed just down the track at Ford. Lot of good stuff there.
@@TheClockwise770 The last time I was there, there were 5 Morgan 3-wheelers! I love them! And then there's the railway- who needs model trains when you can play with that?
Amberley museum is excellent fun, pretty local to me; I was once more local! The last time I was there, my mother was Morris dancing, but that’s another story!
There is another quarry railway at Leighton Buzzard, that has some very interesting wartime stock. There are some very well informed staff there who will guide you round and tell you the history. The ride on the train is very good as well.
@@thelastpilot4582 Much building of housing, but the park terminus is still nice., and the quarry bit should still be interesting, and they have steam locos too
My favorite thing with the film is that Patrick Macnee have a minor role, making John Steed do a Bond quartet with fellow Avengers Emma Peel and Purdey (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) and Catherine Gale (Goldfinger) in a way. Best left alone is the later iteration with Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes. I think Fleming would have enjoyed the idea that The Avengers and Bond being in the same universe. Nice info on the behind the scenes stuff, as always very enjoyable. Cheerio from Sweden
I had a Renault 11 for my first car (the one at the start). I thought it so uncool. It was years later after I traded it in that I realised it was basically a Bond car.
I actually bought a Renault 11 because it was driven by James Bond in that film! After all, I was never going to be able to afford an Aston Martin!😂 Always fancied getting one after seeing it in the film and bought an old one years later. It was actually a good little car. I also bought the Corgi and Matchbox models of the Renault 11 that were tie ins with the film!
Fond memories as a kid, stopping of at Amberley for tea at Vinson's, by the river, on the way back from a day at Climping. Tea was plentiful, and the equally plentiful wasps were free of charge!
Ah, Amberley.... My wife and I stayed at the castle there on the first night of our honeymoon. Good memories other than the experience of having to push a VW Jetta out of a carpark by hand because my time zone-befuddled brain could not figure out that you need to push down on the gearshif to get it into reverse.
I've been to Amberly museum a couple of times; only once in my adult life. It's remarkable I haven't been more often as I just lived a few miles away and loved driving in the area. My health was to blame. If it weren't for that, I would have volunteered there. As much as I enjoy looking at trains, I enjoy repairing them more.
Jago, thanks for the Video. Being local to the museum visited many times. Hopefully you had opportunity to look round the whole museum as there is a lot of non rail related exhibits. Not seen many museums with history of electricity!
I accidentally saw this place in the distance while on a circular walk from Arundel 18 months ago. How about a video on the Nene Valley Railway? Two Bond fillums were fillumed there.
Zorin Industries was based in Swindon UK! At the Renault building to be precise, Filming took place at Renault UK in Swindon as Renault sponsored the film and Bond chopped a Renault 11 in half. I worked on the R19 launch (the replacement for the R11 in the film) there was massive poster boards of the filming at the site in the showroom area, a great poster of the same shot as in your film of Bond slicing the Ren11's roof off. So if your even in Swindon visit the old Renault building for a bit of Bond history,,,,,although I think it is a child play area in the showroom now and a Amazon dept out in the distribution end. Great Video Thank You !
This was yet another very interesting and very informative video Jago and I must admit I learned a lot about the engine and rolling stock all thanks to you producing this video until your next video keep up the good work my friend take care and stay safe
I remember being a very excited 10-11 year old when I saw the blimps flying around above chalk pits museum, because they filmed some of the blimp stunts there too, I believe. I thought it was super cool that a movie was being set in chalk pits museum 😂😂😂
You may be intrigued to hear another Bond Film/Amberley connection is that they have a Roadmachines Monorail, the same type of track as used in the volcano set in "You Only Live Twice".
Love Amberley. I used to take my kids many moons ago, last time I was back in the UK I went with my daughter and her children, the kids love it. I'll be back sometime in the next month or so and will defo do the day out to Amberley.
I used to drive past Pinewood every day to work and saw them building a scale model of the bridge for a model airship to fly to and a full size model of the top where they filmed the fight sequences.
A quite regular visitor, i do love the fact that although the museum has more than enough going for it, the main thing they mention on the railway is that a bit of a not very good Bond film was filmed there almost 40 years ago!
I worked for Zorin Industries. The canteen was good and I got a lovely watch on retirement. Dodging bullets could be a bit tedious but nowhere is perfect.
I worked as a volunteer at the Amberley Museum soon after it opened (and before Bond was filmed there). Back then it was called ‘The Amberley Chalk Pits Museum’.
I know Amberley Chalk Pits very well. The 'Mine' is actually a tunnel linking a smaller chalk pit and runs under the Amberley road above. It is now used as an engine shed.
Very nice. I like railway stuff, done a few railway based videos in a playlist. Had a lot more on my YT version 1. Holiday activities, rides, museums like this one, activities of a holiday video (not on YT now) and that James Bond film is ok but did thing Roger was getting a bit old but nice enough story. So that mine was not even real, Pinewood set. Entrance not a mine but a long shed. The hollywood illusion!
A Pierce Brosnan Bond film, features a car park, that was supposed to be in Berlin. However it was under Wembley Central Shopping Square, attached to Wembley Central Station. The brutalist car park has since been modernised and now has a new entrance, that uses the place where there was a redundant platform at the station, that was originally a coal refuelling platform, before the station was covered over and later a Post Office deliveries, then later still Red Star Parcel deliveries platform, before being abandoned. The entrance used to be a ramp coming up from a side road. The theme of a View To A Kill by Duran Duran, did better than the film, being best seller in several countries and number one in the UK. I'm a fan of that band, since my art school days. 🎶❤️
@@AtheistOrphan I have the rare copy of The Reflex by Duran Duran that was wrapped in a limited edition live poster. And as an avid collector of records I ended up with and still do have several picture discs and coloured singles including the very rare yellow Seaside Woman by Linda and Paul McCartney a Sad Cafe, Everyday Hurts in blue. I never got rid of my records, cassettes and CDs.
There are a lot of films that feature the disused Piccadilly line platform at Holborn. There was also one famous occasion where a tube train was used and the part of the story line was the girl got on the train and her boyfriend got left on the platform by the closing train doors and the train pulled out. The timing was quite difficult with 2 Actors, the time the doors take to close and the train to start. After many attempts the duty manager who was looking out the cab door and closing the doors and telling the driver to go got it all right except when the train moved off the signal was still red and the train was derailed at the points beyond the signal - such are the hazards of movie making.
Have you done an episode from the location in DIE ANOTHER DAY (another less-than-stellar James Bond outing!) where Q (John Cleese) shows Bond (Pierce Brosnan) the car that can turn invisible? Or SKYFALL (one of the best!!) where Bond chases Silva through an Underground station?
‘I happened to be in the area’ - You should have popped in for a tea Jago. My dining room and kitchen overlook the Arun Valley Line. (About 50 metres away from it!)
Back in the late 70's I was passing my local general aviation airfield, Stapleford Abbots in Essex, I saw the airship moored up. Went over and was able to blag a look around the cabin. I did chance my arm, and asked if I could get a flight in her. Unfortunately as she was undertaking specific test flights over London, and wasn't licenced to carry passengers the answer was no.
I absolutely must have seen this film in 1985, but I have no memory of it whatsoever - trains or not. I did see a lot of movies back then and I probably drank more than I do now.
This weekend it the Amberly narrow gauge industrial trains running weekend, as well as the view to a kill stuff it will also feture the same type of monorail that was used in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice
The Weald & Downland Museum is worth a visit, not too far from Amberley, it's where the BBC's 'Repair Shop' is located. Chose a fine day weather wise if possible. The wonderful Bluebell Railway in the same general area as well.
I visited Amberley again last year. As you enter the museum there is a wind pump tower. The tower was moved to the tunnel entrance for the movie to help create the mine set and can clearly be seen in the movie and you can also see the tower from the road as you pass by the museum.
I liked Roger Moore, but to me he never was "James Bond". As you said, he was too old. He had, however made some very enjoyable movies like "The Wild Geese" and "Gold" in addition to his earlier roles beginning with "Ivanhoe". As for the Amberley museum, well worth a visit
It seems I have another name to add to the ever growing list titled “interesting things wot I really should see”. 🤓 It’s one of those lovely things about cinema: you’d never have guessed Zorin’s Californian vast gold mine was in fact just a small stub set in a chalky Cliff in Sussex. But whether you are in Amberley or Los Amberles, I have to agree that it was a bit poor that film. All the same, I’d take the poor Bond film over that poxy Frozen film alllllllll day long 🤷🏻♂️ Hunslet really have produced some brilliant machines over the years. The Quarry Hunslets are as significant to me as, say, a Black 5 or GWR Pannier Tank, because they are equally as adept at their job, brilliantly versatile and…well, just bloody lovely things to watch, admire and ride behind! 😄 Yes, I rather like the idea of a bit of narrow gauge industrial railway action. Don’t get much in SE England after all! 🤔 Thank you sir, have a splendid weekend 👍🍀🍻
Proper job mate. The closest thing to a gold mine would be the cinnabar mine in New Almaden just south of San Jose. Other than that, I think the researchers needed to do a little more digging. 😉
Great video Any chance or doing something about the tube line used in the Vanquish scene in Die Another Day? Was it off Vauxhall Bridge, fictional station called Vauxhall Cross off the Piccadilly Line?
I went there on a school trip not long after it was filmed. The blast mark from the end of the film was still present, and they had the (or a) dirigible on display
I rode that train once. I was shaken around a bit but not stirred.
Funny 😉🚂🚂🚂
Did you get off in the end? 🤨
@@davidbull7210 I think he was making a joke about "Shaken & not stirred"!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
@@Jimyjames73 and I reckon that David was cracking a joke himself.
@@leonardsmit9110 Clearly we can tell who knows AVTAK and who doesn't. 🤨
Amberley Chalk Pits was one of the 1st places my nan took me exploring when we moved over here from Canada when I was 9. It still holds a very fond place in my heart and is an exceptional day out.
There's also a pub across the way from the entrance where once a chap so arrogant that I knew he was so at an age where I hadn't learnt the word tied his boat up & was told he should do so above the jetty stanchions support bars as the river was fairly tidal. He of course proclaimed he knew better and when we returned later for a coke before getting the train home I got to see my first flooded boat and weeping man combo & learnt a critical life lesson in the importance of listening to others.
I had absolutely no idea you were a train enthusiast. I just watch these videos for the sparkling repartee. :-)
As an American, I think "Well I happened to be in the area, you know" is a beautifully British reason to make a video about a filming location for a middling James Bond film from the 80's
I can also picture Roger Moore saying it..
James Bond, double O gauge…
Okay, not quite, but it is narrow gauge.
I think you mean "Double-Oh Nine" right? :P
A good try...😉😀🚂🚂🚂
We are local and love to visit here and watch the movie itself. Always makes my daughter laugh when the airship disappears over the quarry face and is suddenly over the Golden Gate Bridge. Movie magic!
You wrote the exact comment I was going to! Poor Roger apparently hung on to the airship all the way across the Atlantic ocean.
@@spiralfirst6488 And then across the whole of America. Unless they flew Eastwards.
If you fancy another bond themed outing, both Octopussy and Goldeneye’s train scenes were filmed here on the Nene Valley railway. There is also a prototype Hover train in the Museum for extra content opportunities.
Class 20 for Alec Trevelyan's "Command Train" I believe?
@@emjackson2289 I used to work in a warehouse that backed onto the railway coming into Clapham Junction and one afternoon in around the middle of 1994 a strange looking train went slowly past heading towards Clapham Junction. A year later I went to the cinema to see Goldeneye and what did I see the exact train which I had seen a year earlier now being used as Alec Trevelyan's Command Train
We must be near each other - I was hoping for a Peterborough / Nene Valley reference at some point.
What is that 'contraption' stored on the curve on to the NVR as you arrive from the south in to Peterborough?
@@whyyoulidl if it’s blue and white with a Union Jack on it then that’s the RTV 31 Hover Train
A stuntman friend, now sadly passed, worked on this film. He recounted a story of the scene on the golden grate bridge where one of the characters jumps from the airship onto the bridge. A stuntman collegue enquired as to how they would film it. He was told that they wold shoot the establishing shot on the bridge itself and recreate the location in the studio for the jump itself. He asked how much that would cost and was quoted a figure. He then said that, if they gave him half of that, he would perform the jump for real.
Would this be the legendary stunt man whose name escapes me but who was seriously injured while filming the train sequence in Octopussy?
@@davidbull7210 Ooh I'm not sure. Quite possibly though. The same people did the stunts for quite a few Bond films. And the tales they told from the days before CGI...
Possibly Martin Grace?
@@jamie7056 Yes, that's who I was thinking of. He died in 2010
@@KravKernow The days before CGI was when Bond stunts looked actually believable and when you could watch them frame by frame without any cameras shaking for no good reason (the bad reason being hiding the bad CGI). By the time of Quantom of Solace they tried to make the Bond movies look and feel like Bourne. That was when I started losing interest, which makes me sad.
The Zs on the waggons are considerably more chilling now that a real-life mega-villain has decided that a Z would look good on his tanks.
Well least they haven't deployed the Z blimps yet.
got a feeling Mr P has modelled himself after various Bond villains.
@@fisk0 More like Napoleon, both small men with huge egos and cruel, with no regards for their troops or people. Even less for foes. Both told only what they want to hear. We know what eventually happened to Napoleon.
@@tonys1636 Seems Napoleon was towards the top end of the average height range for French men at the time. Putin is roughly the same height, 1.7m.
Its a brillaint place, Amberly. The old phone exchanges and power station bits and pieces are worth a look, as is the bus museum. Hope you had a good look around ;-)
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A tip when you go there - make a note of the telephone numbers whenever you see a phone - the whole system is live (within the museum) so you can make random calls to any other number. People are fascinated when they pick up a ringing phone and you can have some great conversations! Including the old engineer mischief of "we're trying to track a fault on this line, ..." followed by "... would you mind holding the receiver nearer the ground to see if that helps, please?"
I enjoyed my most recent visit to Amberley but what made it especially memorable was that the train's trainee driver passed his exam and became a fully-fledged driver. What a lovely moment to witness. : )
Reminds me of the story of “The Ace of Spades” album cover by Motörhead. It has a bit of an American western theme - and the guys thought that by doing that; they’d get to fly over to the US to shoot it.
Turns out the record company shot it at a mine in the UK lol.
Great video as always
Jago, not sure if you picked up any more rail related video material at Amberley, but one thing I did see there were some small trucks with metal silhouettes of tanks on top. These were used along the coast at Seaford on tracks laid along the cliff edge. The army used them for aiming practice by releasing them one at a time down the track under gravity and firing out to sea. At night the trucks were connected and pulled back up the track by an engine for the next day. Of course, the local teenagers, including my Dad, used to climb on them at night and ride them down the track, necessitating another return pull by the engine in the mornings!
The target trolley at Amberley is powered by a small diesel engine. From what I could see it ran till a lever on the truck hit a lever by the track and then stopped or possibly reversed.
The army still use something similar at Lulworth Ranges, there is a quite complicated track layout. It looks as though it might be electrified with a centre conductor rail but that was looking from a couple of miles away through binoculars. If it was electrified it would not be too difficult to change the speed or stop or reverse the target. Unfortunately the targets are kept in a shed and when they are out the area is closed due to people firing tank shells !
The wagon in the museum is the one Bond and Stacey rode in. It's different from the others in having a rounded off edge to the skip rather than a sharp edge, so was chosen to be the one they hid in so that Roger and Tanya didn't cut themselves climbing in and out.
I think View to a Kill was a good Bond film, thanks for this, and many other great snippets
I very much enjoy View to a Kill. Walken is an ace villain, Tibbet is a wholesome ally, the theme song goes hard and the bridge fight is nothing short of awesome.
Although I’ve watched the film a good few times, I didn’t realise the mine exterior was in the UK. Shows what the magic of the filmmaking can do!
3:24 "This, my friend, is a shed we carved out in the rock face. And they call it a mine! A MINE!"
You're a mine of information Jago!
Never did I expect to learn movie trivia when I first subscribed to this excellent channel - thanks Jago!
From the title and photo, my first reaction was, "Isn't this more Tim Traveller territory?"
I am always shattered when I learn of the exotic places that fill-in for locations in films
When I used to visit the museum it was then known as The Chalk Pits Museum
My first mine that I worked at in Timmins Ontario Canada used Hudson cars for moving crushed rock for ballast, our ore cars were 5 ton side dumping Granby cars built by Wabi Iron works out of New Liskeard ON. We also had 2 Clayton (UK) 5 ton overhead wire trolley locomotives used to haul waste rock from the #8 Shaft sinking project in the 1980s....BTW I am a fan of both industrial railways and of course underground mining as I was an underground miner for 43 years.
A surprising little video, but oh so good! I went to the cinema to see the film when I was a teen. Mainly because I was (and am) a Duran Duran fan. Glad that you like the theme song ;)
I've been to the Amberley museum a couple of times for classic car shows and then there's The Engine Shed just down the track at Ford. Lot of good stuff there.
Yes the museum lends itself well for classic car events. Lots of space and old garages, buses etc.
@@TheClockwise770 The last time I was there, there were 5 Morgan 3-wheelers! I love them! And then there's the railway- who needs model trains when you can play with that?
I was going to watch this film tonight with mum and... Blow me down! What a coincidence!
Amberley museum is excellent fun, pretty local to me; I was once more local!
The last time I was there, my mother was Morris dancing, but that’s another story!
One of my favorite Bond movies
You've just hit a most promising seam, Jago. Trains and movies, there's heaps of stuff to discover. I'm hungrily looking for more. 🚂🚂🚂
TV and movies are great sources of income for heritage railways. Sometimes they even get the period about right.
... hungrily looking for (Roger) Moore 😄
There is another quarry railway at Leighton Buzzard, that has some very interesting wartime stock. There are some very well informed staff there who will guide you round and tell you the history. The ride on the train is very good as well.
i would not recommend that place to anyone
@@jessica-fx3uh Why?
Doesn't that one run through what is now suburbs?
@@lawrencelewis2592 No Idea it was a very long time ago when I went there.
@@thelastpilot4582 Much building of housing, but the park terminus is still nice., and the quarry bit should still be interesting, and they have steam locos too
I thought you would say "You are the double-oh to my seven".
My favorite thing with the film is that Patrick Macnee have a minor role, making John Steed do a Bond quartet with fellow Avengers Emma Peel and Purdey (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) and Catherine Gale (Goldfinger) in a way. Best left alone is the later iteration with Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes. I think Fleming would have enjoyed the idea that The Avengers and Bond being in the same universe.
Nice info on the behind the scenes stuff, as always very enjoyable. Cheerio from Sweden
I used to volunteer there. It's a fantastic museum with all sorts of industrial equipment and electrical displays plus as you said the mini locos.
I love the bit where Bond invents snowboarding at the start.
I had a Renault 11 for my first car (the one at the start). I thought it so uncool.
It was years later after I traded it in that I realised it was basically a Bond car.
I actually bought a Renault 11 because it was driven by James Bond in that film! After all, I was never going to be able to afford an Aston Martin!😂 Always fancied getting one after seeing it in the film and bought an old one years later. It was actually a good little car. I also bought the Corgi and Matchbox models of the Renault 11 that were tie ins with the film!
Fond memories as a kid, stopping of at Amberley for tea at Vinson's, by the river, on the way back from a day at Climping. Tea was plentiful, and the equally plentiful wasps were free of charge!
Ah, Amberley.... My wife and I stayed at the castle there on the first night of our honeymoon. Good memories other than the experience of having to push a VW Jetta out of a carpark by hand because my time zone-befuddled brain could not figure out that you need to push down on the gearshif to get it into reverse.
It always amuses me that the airship takes off from my locale Amberley near Arundel Sussex and instantly arrives in San Francisco!!
Excellent, local Sussex trivia, trains and a fab Bond reference to boot!
It's probably been over 10 years since I last went to Amberley, despite regularly visiting to area to see my aunt. I've added it to my todo list.
Well worth a visit. Thank you again, Jago !
Being both a 007 fan and a resident of Leeds (with Hunslet only up the road) this was a very interesting video. Thank you 😀
I've been to Amberly museum a couple of times; only once in my adult life. It's remarkable I haven't been more often as I just lived a few miles away and loved driving in the area. My health was to blame. If it weren't for that, I would have volunteered there. As much as I enjoy looking at trains, I enjoy repairing them more.
"It is not very good, but it is unquestionably one of my favorites"
Jago, thanks for the Video. Being local to the museum visited many times. Hopefully you had opportunity to look round the whole museum as there is a lot of non rail related exhibits. Not seen many museums with history of electricity!
Brilliant video, A View to a Kill is a favourite, very interesting, movie magic at work
I accidentally saw this place in the distance while on a circular walk from Arundel 18 months ago. How about a video on the Nene Valley Railway? Two Bond fillums were fillumed there.
Bloody hell! I never knew the last Roger Moore Bond Film was filmed there!
You really had me going at 1:00 talking about flying out to cali for the goldmine😂 #greathumour
Goldfinger plot twice, Thunderball plot twice. You only live twice.
You learn something new every day! I wouldn't have guessed that a Bond movie was shot at the Amberley museum!
Also, if it was a mine, the tunnel would be an adit.
@@theenigmaticst7572 I get your drift
Zorin Industries was based in Swindon UK! At the Renault building to be precise, Filming took place at Renault UK in Swindon as Renault sponsored the film and Bond chopped a Renault 11 in half. I worked on the R19 launch (the replacement for the R11 in the film) there was massive poster boards of the filming at the site in the showroom area, a great poster of the same shot as in your film of Bond slicing the Ren11's roof off. So if your even in Swindon visit the old Renault building for a bit of Bond history,,,,,although I think it is a child play area in the showroom now and a Amazon dept out in the distribution end. Great Video Thank You !
As a hunslet lad it makes me smile that rolling stock and locos used in the film were built there
Dont forget to Pop into Middleton Railway to see some Hunslet Locos of various sizes
@@highpath4776 I've spent many hours there, taking my child there next weekend so 3 generation of the same family visiting the place
You want to come to Peterborough. Has you probably know we had 2 Bond films made on The Nene Valley Railway. Octopussy and Goldeneye.
This was yet another very interesting and very informative video Jago and I must admit I learned a lot about the engine and rolling stock all thanks to you producing this video until your next video keep up the good work my friend take care and stay safe
I remember being a very excited 10-11 year old when I saw the blimps flying around above chalk pits museum, because they filmed some of the blimp stunts there too, I believe. I thought it was super cool that a movie was being set in chalk pits museum 😂😂😂
Yes, the scene where Zorin leans out and grabs Stacey, and Bond grabs the mooring line, was filmed at Amberley.
I honestly had no idea where you were going with this when the video started. However, amused and delighted as always.
I love your humour so much, Jago XD
The problem with A View to a Kill in a modern context is that I actively want the bad guy to win and destroy Silicon Valley.
But then there'd be no TH-cam and Jago would have to distribute his videos on VHS tape.
You may be intrigued to hear another Bond Film/Amberley connection is that they have a Roadmachines Monorail, the same type of track as used in the volcano set in "You Only Live Twice".
Great video, thank you! 👍🏼😊
Love Amberley. I used to take my kids many moons ago, last time I was back in the UK I went with my daughter and her children, the kids love it. I'll be back sometime in the next month or so and will defo do the day out to Amberley.
Can we have a new mini regular series? Jago's trains of movie magic perhaps?
Platform 9.5 perhaps?
@@Ribeirasacra is that Herry Potter stop? He did one on that location.
@@Ribeirasacra 9.75
Roger Moore - My favourite James Bond. Jago Hazzard - My favourite railway-related TH-cam presenter. Loved this one Jago.
Always thought Roger Moore was the "Saint"!
Amberley Marsh/Levels(?) was once the last place where you could be certain of hearing the booming of a British bittern. A bird worth googling.
I used to drive past Pinewood every day to work and saw them building a scale model of the bridge for a model airship to fly to and a full size model of the top where they filmed the fight sequences.
Enjoyed the video Jago 👍🏻
Thank you, Jago!
1:23 also not Arendal, Norway.
A quite regular visitor, i do love the fact that although the museum has more than enough going for it, the main thing they mention on the railway is that a bit of a not very good Bond film was filmed there almost 40 years ago!
Now you can do the Nene Valley Railway which featured in Octopussy. Peterborough doubling for Karl-Marx-Stadt - whatever did they think of that?
I worked for Zorin Industries.
The canteen was good and I got a lovely watch on retirement.
Dodging bullets could be a bit tedious but nowhere is perfect.
3:26 the word you are looking for is adit. I'm sure you adit on the tip of your tongue.
I worked as a volunteer at the Amberley Museum soon after it opened (and before Bond was filmed there). Back then it was called ‘The Amberley Chalk Pits Museum’.
That's brilliant! I had no idea. I'll have to visit the place when I'm down there next.
I know Amberley Chalk Pits very well. The 'Mine' is actually a tunnel linking a smaller chalk pit and runs under the Amberley road above. It is now used as an engine shed.
Ian Flemings's best book has to be Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Very nice. I like railway stuff, done a few railway based videos in a playlist. Had a lot more on my YT version 1. Holiday activities, rides, museums like this one, activities of a holiday video (not on YT now) and that James Bond film is ok but did thing Roger was getting a bit old but nice enough story. So that mine was not even real, Pinewood set. Entrance not a mine but a long shed. The hollywood illusion!
A Pierce Brosnan Bond film, features a car park, that was supposed to be in Berlin. However it was under Wembley Central Shopping Square, attached to Wembley Central Station. The brutalist car park has since been modernised and now has a new entrance, that uses the place where there was a redundant platform at the station, that was originally a coal refuelling platform, before the station was covered over and later a Post Office deliveries, then later still Red Star Parcel deliveries platform, before being abandoned. The entrance used to be a ramp coming up from a side road.
The theme of a View To A Kill by Duran Duran, did better than the film, being best seller in several countries and number one in the UK. I'm a fan of that band, since my art school days. 🎶❤️
I had the single on white vinyl!
@@AtheistOrphan I have the rare copy of The Reflex by Duran Duran that was wrapped in a limited edition live poster. And as an avid collector of records I ended up with and still do have several picture discs and coloured singles including the very rare yellow Seaside Woman by Linda and Paul McCartney a Sad Cafe, Everyday Hurts in blue. I never got rid of my records, cassettes and CDs.
There are a lot of films that feature the disused Piccadilly line platform at Holborn. There was also one famous occasion where a tube train was used and the part of the story line was the girl got on the train and her boyfriend got left on the platform by the closing train doors and the train pulled out. The timing was quite difficult with 2 Actors, the time the doors take to close and the train to start. After many attempts the duty manager who was looking out the cab door and closing the doors and telling the driver to go got it all right except when the train moved off the signal was still red and the train was derailed at the points beyond the signal - such are the hazards of movie making.
If you mean in Tomorrow Never Dies, it was Brent Cross shopping centre car park.
@@sim77410 No it was another one. But the entrance in that film was definitely not the one in Brent Cross.
Have you done an episode from the location in DIE ANOTHER DAY (another less-than-stellar James Bond outing!) where Q (John Cleese) shows Bond (Pierce Brosnan) the car that can turn invisible? Or SKYFALL (one of the best!!) where Bond chases Silva through an Underground station?
Just coincidental that Hudson was headquartered on BOND Street
The best thing about the film is seeing Christopher Walken wrestling with Grace Jones. Shame there's no cowbell.
‘I happened to be in the area’ - You should have popped in for a tea Jago. My dining room and kitchen overlook the Arun Valley Line. (About 50 metres away from it!)
I happen to be in the area, well I live near it, great video as always!
Haha I love A View to a Kill, best Bond theme song.
Back in the late 70's I was passing my local general aviation airfield, Stapleford Abbots in Essex, I saw the airship moored up. Went over and was able to blag a look around the cabin. I did chance my arm, and asked if I could get a flight in her. Unfortunately as she was undertaking specific test flights over London, and wasn't licenced to carry passengers the answer was no.
I absolutely must have seen this film in 1985, but I have no memory of it whatsoever - trains or not. I did see a lot of movies back then and I probably drank more than I do now.
I love that museum! I believe my school trunk and lacrosse stick ended up there.
I did not know that this Amberley Railway existed. I literally thought you went to the other Amberley Railway in Staffordshire.
I had no idea you were a rail enthusiast, Jago! Have you considered making videos about the London Underground? 😂
Oh man, that’s a great idea!
Brilliant as always Jago
Ooo. Maybe a series of rail-related movies locations would be fun.
This weekend it the Amberly narrow gauge industrial trains running weekend, as well as the view to a kill stuff it will also feture the same type of monorail that was used in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice
The Weald & Downland Museum is worth a visit, not too far from Amberley, it's where the BBC's 'Repair Shop' is located. Chose a fine day weather wise if possible. The wonderful Bluebell Railway in the same general area as well.
I visited Amberley again last year. As you enter the museum there is a wind pump tower. The tower was moved to the tunnel entrance for the movie to help create the mine set and can clearly be seen in the movie and you can also see the tower from the road as you pass by the museum.
I liked Roger Moore, but to me he never was "James Bond". As you said, he was too old. He had, however made some very enjoyable movies like "The Wild Geese" and "Gold" in addition to his earlier roles beginning with "Ivanhoe".
As for the Amberley museum, well worth a visit
It seems I have another name to add to the ever growing list titled “interesting things wot I really should see”. 🤓
It’s one of those lovely things about cinema: you’d never have guessed Zorin’s Californian vast gold mine was in fact just a small stub set in a chalky Cliff in Sussex. But whether you are in Amberley or Los Amberles, I have to agree that it was a bit poor that film. All the same, I’d take the poor Bond film over that poxy Frozen film alllllllll day long 🤷🏻♂️
Hunslet really have produced some brilliant machines over the years. The Quarry Hunslets are as significant to me as, say, a Black 5 or GWR Pannier Tank, because they are equally as adept at their job, brilliantly versatile and…well, just bloody lovely things to watch, admire and ride behind! 😄
Yes, I rather like the idea of a bit of narrow gauge industrial railway action. Don’t get much in SE England after all! 🤔
Thank you sir, have a splendid weekend 👍🍀🍻
Proper job mate. The closest thing to a gold mine would be the cinnabar mine in New Almaden just south of San Jose. Other than that, I think the researchers needed to do a little more digging. 😉
Great video
Any chance or doing something about the tube line used in the Vanquish scene in Die Another Day? Was it off Vauxhall Bridge, fictional station called Vauxhall Cross off the Piccadilly Line?
Jago posted a photo of that very location on his Instagram feed a few days ago.
I went there on a school trip not long after it was filmed. The blast mark from the end of the film was still present, and they had the (or a) dirigible on display