Stupid telly question/question stupid telly

[hirez]

I vaguely recall some children's telly that I assume is of seventies vintage. A young person is plagued by dreams of an ancestor who builds some early steam engine, but for reasons I've forgotten walls is up in a railway arch. Young person is guided by dreams to find said bricked-up bit and thus rediscover the engine.

Probably.

The last time something like this happened, it turned out to be a RAH short that I had become convinced was a lost Hitchcock film.

The internet, usually a demographically-unsurprising oracle regarding 70s/80s youth-telly, is oddly silent.

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[wehmuth.livejournal.com]

This isn't the Rev W. Audrey story about the Lost Engine? Duke, is it? It's set on the Welsh lines.

Probably not, now I reread your description. But something is nagging...

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

>> The last time something like this happened, it turned out to be a RAH short that I had become convinced was a lost Hitchcock film.

I want a Netflix subscription in the world where Hitchcock bought a script from RAH.

[uk-jon.livejournal.com]

I was reminded of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flockton_Flyer), this (http://www.shvoong.com/books/childrens-literature/1756932-famous-camp) and this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A311202), none of which answer the question. Sorry.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's what the internet thought. IIRC there are at least two Rev. Awdry 'lost engine' stories.

Um. Probably.

[wehmuth.livejournal.com]

Well there's the one I'm thinking of and the one where one of the engines get's stuck in a tunnel, no hang on, James, no, Henry refuses to come out of the tunnel because of the rain and gets boarded up, or something. Duke gets lost and forgotten, possibly buried. I don't recall any others... what is the wisdom from the interwebs?

Mind like a steel trap.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

In my head, it was really very fine.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

Think its in your head anyway. If it turns out not to exist, why not write it?

[uk-jon.livejournal.com]

The Last Train Through the Harecastle Tunnel (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439510) is not it either but sounds "very interesting".

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

The Viaduct.

Bottom of this page. HTH.

http://tv.cream.org/a-z/uvwxyz/index.htm

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I did have an alleged copy of that for a while. Yes. 'Interesting'.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think that's the fellow. Well played!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

No worries. (I grew up a few miles from where George Stephenson was born - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-georgestephensonsbirthplace - so while the programme was originally shown a few years before my time, I remember seeing it at school, probably on early VHS or even Betamax!)

[quercus.livejournal.com]

It's not a flashback to your past, it's an echo from your future:

2039: In the post-apocalyptic world the young JH-R knows that the only place she's going to find a tram is if her old Great Uncle Crazy was right about his tales of the Strategic Reserve being buried under S***** H***...