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4 unusual facts about Last Passenger


Last Passenger

During development, Nooshin and producer Zack Winfield traveled to Wellington to meet with Weta Workshop special effects head Richard Taylor, an avid train fanatic and supporter of the script.

The film was set on-board two Class 421 “4-CIG” EMU (carriages 76747 and 62385 from unit 1399).

Last Passenger is a 2013 British suspense thriller film directed by Omid Nooshin and starring Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon and Iddo Goldberg.

Omid Nooshin

In 2008 Nooshin's script for Last Passenger was voted onto the Brit List of favourite unproduced British screenplays.



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Handyside Bridge

It carried trains from 1878 to 1968, with the last passenger train crossing on September 5, 1964 and the last goods train in May 1968 by the Stephenson Locomotive Society, when the branch was closed by the Beeching cuts.

Saarbrücken–Sarreguemines railway

A few weeks later, on 16 July 1870, the last passenger train ran from Sarreguemines, subjected to stone-throwing by the French during the lead up to the Franco-Prussian War.

TSS Duke of Rothesay

Along with her sister ships the TSS Duke of Lancaster (1956) and the TSS Duke of Argyll she was amongst the last passenger-only steamers built for British Railways (at that time, also a ferry operator).