The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.

Date of release
1966-03-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Family
Director
Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Collection
St Trinian's Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a 1966 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat and starring a selection of actors from previous films in the series, including George Cole, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Michael Ripper, and Raymond Huntley, alongside Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney, Dora Bryan, and the voice of Stratford Johns. It was written by Launder and Ivor Herbert from an original story by Launder, Gilliat and Leslie Gilliat. It is the last of the original series of films based on the St Trinian's School set of images and comics, and the only one to be produced in colour.

Production

The railway scenes were filmed on the former Longmoor Military Railway (closed in 1969). In the final railway scene where the girls 'return' the money the British Railways station at Liss can be seen in the background.

Longmoor Military Railway WD Austerity 2-10-0 AD601 'Kitchener' as the express locomotive in mock-up green livery and carrying a fake BR-pattern numberplate on the smokebox door until its scrapping in 1967.

Two Ministry of Supply "Austerity" 0-6-0ST Tank Engines, one of which was mocked up to resemble a J50 and temporarily renumbered 68961, but in reality was WD157 Constantine (this locomotive was scrapped in 1968 by Pollock Brown at Southampton), the other one, WD196 Errol Lonsdale, painted black and given the number 68011.

One LMS diesel shunter {BR Class 11} in Longmoor colours.

A DEMU in BR livery as the commuter train commandeered by the police (number 1102, Class 205).

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