The BLACK SHEEP OF WHITEHALL 1942 1 hour 13 minutes
Starring: Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Thora Hird

Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real economist and expose the agent.

Baynards features at 1 hour 4 minutes into the film for about one minute. The station itself isn't seen, just the crossing and a brief glimpse of the signal box.

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THE NEW LOT 1943 British Army training film 42 minutes
Starring: Eric Ambler, Ivor Bernard, Kathleen Harrison, Geoffrey Keen and Robert Donat

During World War II, five civilians from different backgrounds become reluctant conscripts in the British Army. The station becomes Doomshead for this film. The recruits leave London being hauled by Lord Nelson Class 852 Sir Walter Raleigh but arrive at Baynards hauled by Bullied Q C1, a regular loco on the line. The film was remade as The Way Ahead in 1944 starring David Niven but the remake didn't feature Baynards.

Baynards is featured at 7 minutes in for 45 seconds. A train is seen arriving.

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The recruits arrive at Doomshead (Baynards).

THEY WERE SISTERS 1945 1 hour 49 minutes
Starring: Phylis Calvert, James Mason and Hugh Sinclair

The story of three sisters and the men they marry. One is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage; the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.

Baynards is featured at 21minutes in for about 1½ minutes. A train is seen arriving.

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Lucy waits for a train bringing her sisters to visit.

Charlotte and Lucy embrace.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN 1957 BBC TV series, 8 30 minute episodes between 6 Feb 1951 and 27 Mar 1951
Starring: Jean Anderson (Mother), Marion Chapman (Bobbie), Carol Lorimer (Phyllis) and Michael Croudson (Peter)

Jean Anderson reprised her role of Mother from the earlier 1951 BBC version, with Hilda Barry also returning as Mrs Viney. The script also stuck closely to Dorothea Brooking’s original 1951 script. In 1957, a third adaptation of Edith Nesbit's 1905 novel appeared on the BBC. Writing in the Radio Times, Dorothea Brooking, whose adaptation was again used, told readers that 'almost a new generation of children has grown up apart from the countless families who were not able to see television in those days. So it seems the right moment to produce it again. Brooking wrote that filming in 1957 for the period of 1906 meant finding a station and a bit of line that was not electrified. 'After walking on remote bits of line in the home counties and consulting ordinance maps, we found a country station and a line that winds through a tunnel between high wooded hills.' The next difficulty to overcome was that modern trains were using this line. However, with the cooperation of British Railways they got the shots they wanted, hopefully without incurring the wrath of 'keen trainspotters.'

No episodes are available online and it woulld appear that this and the early 1951 series have been lost. It's possible that Baynards station also featured in the 1951 TV series of The Railway Children this series has also been lost.

ROOM AT THE TOP 1959 1 hour 57 minutes
Starring Simone Signoret, Lawrence Harvey, Heather Sears

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman. The station name is not identified. The loco used is is a Drummond M7 30027 which was withdrawn from Guildford shed in November 1959 and scrapped the following month.

Baynards is featured at 1 hour 22 minutes into the film for 1½ minutes. A man and a woman are standing on the down platform as the train arrives. The woman boards the train, they kiss and the train pulls away as the man watches.

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Joe Lampton and Alice Aisgill wait at Baynards station as a northbound train arrives.

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Alice boards the train which departs as Joe looks on

THE GRASS IS GREENER 1960 1hour 44 minutes
Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum

This brilliant but rather neglected comedy features excellent colour scenes filmed at Baynards station with Deborah Kerr departing for London on a train hauled by ex-SR M7 Class 0-4-4T No.30132. The station masquerades as ‘Lynley’. A couple who are suffering financial problems, to the extent that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their stately home, end up in a love triangle when one visitor, a millionaire oil tycoon, takes a liking to more than the house.

Baynards is seen at 37.25 minutes into the film and is featured for 1 minute. Two people (Victor and Hilary) are waiting on the platform as a train arrives. Hilary boards the train which departs passing the signal box. In the film it is described as the train for London but it is actually heading south away from London!

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Victor and Hilary stand on the platform as the train for London arrives.

As they say goodbye, the Earl warns Hilary not to speak to strangers.


Hilary looks back as the train departs but the two miss each others' glances.

Victor walks from the station.

THE HORSEMASTERS 1961 Part 1 56 minutes (including commercials)
Starring: Janet Monro, Tony Britton and Donald Pleasaence

The Horsemasters was a two-part episode of the Disneyland TV show from 1961. A group of young people do a course in horsemanship in England. The opening colour scenes are filmed at Baynards station with a push-pull train arriving behind ex-SR M7 Class 0-4-4T No.30124. The station is masquerading as ‘Valleywood’. The feature length drama was based on the 1957 Don Stanford novel of the same name.

Baynards is featured at 3.52 minutes into the film for 2½ minutes. Danny Grant arrives at the station as the train from London pulls in to the platform. He is there to meet three students for the Valleywood Riding School arriving by train.

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The shot pans as Danny brings the car to a stand in front of Valleywood station.

Joe the stationmaster walks onto the platform.


As Danny gets out of the car, the train draws into the platform.

Danny Grant (Tommy Kirk) stands on the platform to meet the new students attending Valleywood Riding School.

Filming underway at Baynards station in 1960 or 1961. The film crew is seen to the left. A Drummond M7 30124 waits with a southbound passenger train in the up platform. This loco was built at Nine Elms Works entering service with the LSWR as 124 in February 1903. She was withdrawn from Guildford shed on 20 May 1961 and scrapped the following month.
Photo from John Mann collection

ROTTON TO THE CORE 1965 1 hour 26 minutes
Starring: Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling and Eric Sykes

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. The nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Baynards becomes Longhampton Halt for this film.

Barnards station is featured at 58.42 minutes into the film for just under a minute. A through diesel is forced to make an unscheduled stop at Longhampton Halt.

Christs Hospital station was alo seen in this film masquerading as Longhampton.

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The heist takes place. A train carrying German Army dignitaries and soldiers wages arrives at Longhampton Halt.

The Duke, disguised as a German Officer, takes the place of the genuine dignitary.


For this film Baynards station has become Longhampton Halt.

MONSTER OF TERROR 1965 1 hour 14 minutes
Starring: Boris Karloff and Freda Jackson

A young man visits his fiancée’s estate only to discover that the plants in the greenhouse have taken on gigantic proportions and a sinister nature.

This dreadful horror film is a loose adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story The Colour Out of Space. It was shot under the working title The House at the End of the World but was released in the UK as Monster of Terror and in the US as Die, Monster, Die! The opening scenes in the film feature some very good colour shots of BR Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2T No.41287 arriving at Baynards station with a train of three green-liveried Mk.1 coaches. This was filmed shortly before the station’s closure on 14th June 1965. An air of desolation is readily apparent from these scenes, not helped by the winter weather. The station was renamed ‘Arkham’ for the film and there are equally good shots of the level crossing and signal box for what was its final appearance in a feature film.

Baynards station is seen as the opening sequence of this film after the opening titles for 1½ minutes. A passenger gets off an incoming train and walks along the platform to the level crossing to catch a taxi.

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A train approaches Arkham station.

Ivatt 2MT 41287 has arrived at Arkham station.


Having left the train Stephen Reinhart walks along the platform.

As the train departs, Stephen Reinhart (Nick Adams) makes his way to the roadway.

Stephen Reinhart approaches a Taxi Driver (Harold Goodwin) and asks to be taken to Witley house.

POIROT Series 9 Episode 4 - 1 hour 13 minutes. First broadcast 26 April 2004
Starring David Suchet, Jonathan Cake, Megan Dodds, Sarah Miles, Edward Fox

Poirot is invited to The Hollow, a splendid country retreat of the Angkatell family. The unexpected arrival of Dr Christow's old lover leaves the company in an uproar. The next day, Dr Christow is found shot dead by the pool, his delicate wife standing next to him with a smoking revolver in her hand. Can the case be as simple as it seems?

Baynards station is seen 5.31minutes into this episode. Poirot arrives at the station and another man is thereto meet him. A number of railway staff are seen but no train or track. By this date there was no track at Baynards.

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Poirot arrives at the station.


Poirot arrives at the station.

Victor Simms (Ian Talbot) arrives at the station to meet Poirot

Poirot with Victor Simms