John Betjeman Goes by Train

John Betjeman Goes By Train
John Betjeman boards the train for his trip to Hunstanton
Starring	John Betjeman
Production company	British Transport Films BBC East
Release dates	1962 (1962)
Running time	10 minutes
Country	United Kingdom

John Betjeman Goes By Train is a 1962 short documentary film made by British Transport Films and BBC East Anglia. The 10-minute-long film features future poet laureate John Betjeman as he takes a memorable journey by train from King's Lynn railway station to Hunstanton railway station in Norfolk, pointing out various sights and stopping off at Wolferton station on the Sandringham Estate and Snettisham station, where he extolls the virtues of rural branchline stations.^[1] An early example of a Betjeman travelogue film, a similar idea was later used for his 1973 documentary Metro-land.^[1]

References

1 2 "John Betjeman Goes By Train". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2010-07-31.

External links

John Betjeman Goes By Train at the Internet Movie Database

Television programmes written by or presented by John Betjeman

John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959)
Journey into a Lost World (1960)
John Betjeman in the West Country (1962)
John Betjeman Goes by Train (1962)
Branch Line Railway (1963)
One Man's County (1964)
Something about Diss (1964)
Discovering Britain with John Betjeman (1964)
Pity About the Abbey (1965)
Betjeman's London (1967)
A Poet Goes North (1968)
Four with Betjeman: Victorian Architects and Architecture (1971)
Railways Forever! (1972)
Thank God it's Sunday (1972)
Metro-land (1973)
A Passion for Churches (1974)
Summoned by Bells (1976)
Vicar of this Parish (1976)
Time with Betjeman (1983)

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