Transport and infrastructure to film in the United Kingdom
42 of them, 36 with a photo and 10 with practical details the location publishes itself. 9 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot.
Shooting in the United Kingdom pays back through the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (AVEC) (34%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway
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Preserved standard gauge line on the Forth with a rebuilt Victorian station, signal boxes, goods yard, steam and diesel stock and a large covered museum shed.
Bressingham Steam and Gardens
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Steam preservation site near Diss with narrow-gauge railways, a collection of traction engines and steam locomotives, and surrounding show gardens.
Brooklands Museum
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Site of the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit near Weybridge, with a surviving banked track section, aircraft hangars and early aviation and motoring exhibits.
Edwardian Grade II listed Clubhouse (1907); Aircraft Factory hangar with a Wellington Bomber; Flight Shed with a Hawker Harrier and Sopwith Camel;...
Clifton Suspension Bridge
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Brunel designed chain suspension bridge of 1864 spanning the Avon Gorge seventy five metres above the river, with Egyptian style towers and vaulted abutments.
Conwy Suspension Bridge
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1826 Thomas Telford suspension bridge across the Conwy estuary in north Wales, beside Conwy Castle, with its original tollhouse kept furnished.
Cotswold Airport
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Former RAF airfield near Cirencester with active runways, hangars and a stored Boeing 747 available for interior and exterior aviation filming.
Runways, hangars, Boeing 747 'Negus' for exterior and interior filming, secure discrete site
Coventry Transport Museum
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Museum in central Coventry holding one of the largest collections of British-made cars, motorcycles and bicycles, with large open display halls.
Hire spaces: Bettmann Suite (60 people), Starley Suite (150), Swift Centre (30) and Mezzanine Gallery (200). Onsite Baxter Cafe seats 120. Equipment...
Crich Tramway Village
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National Tramway Museum built as a period street in a limestone quarry, with a working tram line, cobbles, gas lamps, shopfronts, pub and large depot sheds.
Cutty Sark
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A preserved nineteenth century tea clipper in dry dock at Greenwich, its decks, rigging and cargo hold open for events and location hire.
Discovery Point and RRS Discovery
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Antarctic research ship of 1901 moored on the Tay beside a visitor centre, with rigging, wardroom, cabins, engine room and galley kept as they were.
Dunsfold Aerodrome
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Working airfield and business park in Surrey with runways, taxiways, hangars, a control tower and a Boeing 747 kept on site for filming.
Seen in: Top Gear
Hangars, runways and taxiways, a Boeing 747 available exclusively for filming, operational flying
Epping Ongar Railway
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Preserved former Central line branch in Essex with country stations at North Weald and Ongar, a signal box, steam and diesel stock and heritage buses.
Falkirk Wheel
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A rotating boat lift connecting two canals near Falkirk, managed by Scottish Canals with a visitor centre, basin and towpaths around it.
Foxton Locks
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Grade II listed staircase of ten locks, the longest flight in Britain, on the Grand Union Canal, with a former inclined boat lift and towpath open for filming under Canal and River Trust permit.
Glenfinnan Viaduct
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Curved 21-arch concrete railway viaduct of 1901 carrying the West Highland Line above the head of Loch Shiel.
Seen in: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Great Central Railway
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Double track heritage main line between Loughborough and Leicester North with four period stations, signal boxes, a locomotive shed, bridges and open lineside.
Green Park Station
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Former Midland Railway terminus of 1870 in Bath with a curved iron and glass trainshed, a Georgian style stone frontage and brick vaults beneath the platforms.
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HMS Caroline
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First World War Royal Navy light cruiser preserved as a museum ship in Belfast's Titanic Quarter, with its decks and machinery spaces open for TV, radio and commercial filming.
HMS Trincomalee
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Britain's oldest floating warship, an 1817 frigate preserved at Hartlepool's Maritime Experience quayside, with decks and rigging open for TV, radio and commercial filming.
Kent & East Sussex Railway
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Preserved light railway from Tenterden to Bodiam with period stations, signal boxes, steam locomotives, carriages and ten miles of rural line.
National Railway Museum
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National collection of historic locomotives and rolling stock in York, housed in former railway engine sheds with large open halls and turntables.
Capacity: 1000 · Great Hall (up to 1,000 guests) displays locomotives including Mallard, Flying Scotsman and a Bullet Train; Station Hall (up to 450 guests) features...
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
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Cast iron canal trough of 1805 carried thirty eight metres above the Dee on nineteen stone piers, with a towpath crossing and a wooded valley below.
Portland Port
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Former Royal Navy base on Portland Harbour with deep water quays, breakwaters and forts, warehouses, dry dock, cranes and open hardstanding behind a secure gate.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
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Working Royal Navy dockyard and heritage site with historic warships, dry docks and Georgian storehouses along Portsmouth Harbour.
Ribblehead Viaduct
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24-arch stone railway viaduct carrying the Settle to Carlisle line across open moorland in the Yorkshire Dales.
Severn Valley Railway
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16-mile heritage steam railway between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth with five preserved Victorian stations, engine sheds and rolling stock used for period rail scenes.
Seen in: 28 Days Later, Enola Holmes, The Chronicles of Narnia, Goodnight Mister Tom
Silverstone Circuit
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A motor racing circuit on a former airfield in Northamptonshire, with grandstands, pit garages and a test track hired for motoring productions.
Southwold Pier
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Traditional seaside pier rebuilt in the 2000s on its Edwardian footings, with a pavilion, amusement arcade and end-of-pier walkway over the North Sea.
SS Great Britain
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Preserved Victorian iron-hulled steamship in her original dry dock in Bristol, with restored decks, engine room and dockside museum buildings.
SS Nomadic
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Restored 1911 tender ship in Belfast's Hamilton Dock, the last remaining vessel of the White Star Line, moored beside Titanic Belfast as a museum ship.
Standedge Tunnel
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Britain's longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel, cut through the Pennines at Marsden on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, with a visitor centre and boat trips into the tunnel, open for filming under Canal and River Trust permit.
Tanfield Railway
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Preserved colliery line on a 1725 waggonway route, with the Causey Arch, Marley Hill engine shed of 1854, wooden platforms and industrial tank engines.
The Historic Dockyard Chatham
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80-acre former Royal Navy dockyard on the Medway with Georgian ropewalks, covered slips, dry docks and historic ships used as period maritime backdrops.
Seen in: Call the Midwife, Sherlock Holmes
The Tank Museum
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Military vehicle museum on the Bovington army camp with several hundred tanks and armoured vehicles, indoor halls and outdoor arena space.
Ulster Transport Museum
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A National Museums NI transport museum at Cultra on Belfast Lough, with halls of trains, cars and aircraft beside the adjoining Ulster Folk Museum's historic buildings.
Watercress Line
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Preserved standard gauge railway between Alresford and Alton with restored country stations, a locomotive shed, steam engines and ten miles of track.
Bluebell Railway
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11-mile heritage steam railway through the Sussex Weald with three Victorian stations and large carriage sheds also used for indoor and green-screen filming.
Seen in: Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes, Blitz
Charlestown Harbour
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Small Georgian-era dry-dock harbour near St Austell, still used by tall ships, with quayside cottages and period pilchard cellars around the basin.
Seen in: Poldark
Inner Harbour is 151m long, 33m wide and 5m deep, holding over 5,400 sq m of water; vessels up to 75m length and 4m draught can sail in directly from...
Colne Valley Railway
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Heritage standard-gauge railway on the Essex-Suffolk border with a rebuilt country station, signal box and steam and diesel locomotives.
Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
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Five-mile heritage railway between Keighley and Oxenhope with preserved stations and rolling stock giving period scenes from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Seen in: The Railway Children, The Railway Children Return, Peaky Blinders, All Creatures Great and Small
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North Yorkshire Moors Railway
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Heritage steam railway running 24 miles through the North York Moors, with period stations at Pickering, Goathland and Grosmont used for productions set from the 1930s onward.
Seen in: Downton Abbey, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Heartbeat, Dad's Army (2016)
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Tower Bridge
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Bascule and suspension bridge over the Thames with twin Victorian Gothic towers and a glass-floored high-level walkway overlooking the city.
Seen in: The Mummy Returns, Spider-Man: Far From Home
Interior filming spaces include the High-Level Walkways (level 5), the North and South Towers and the Engine Rooms; a Film Liaison team, on-site...
Transport and infrastructure elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 35
- Spain 33
- France 20
- Italy 19
- Poland 17
- Croatia 13
- Switzerland 12
- Greece 11
- Netherlands 11
- Portugal 11
- Romania 10
- Czech Republic 8
Other kinds of location in the United Kingdom
- Theatres, arenas and venues 47
- Industrial and derelict locations 39
- Offices, schools and public buildings 31
- Film studios and backlots 37
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 10
- Houses and apartments 33
- Hotels and interiors 22
- Bars, restaurants and shops 10
- Castles and estates 17
- Churches and monasteries 13
- Villages and countryside 15
- Modern architecture 9
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