"Could You Really Say Goodbye?" - Brief Encounter's Carnforth Station | BFI

[@whouster]

Brief Encounter is a truly magical film, and well done to everyone preserving the legacy at Carnforth. Well done to the old fella for getting the job of winding the clock!

[@ValerieVfc]

I've just recently watched this treasure of a movie. Great directing by David Lean, timeless story by Noël Coward, amazing acting by Celia Johnson, and lovely sets. Without the sets, you wouldn't have the sense of urgency, the waiting, longing, and heartbreak. It truly is a wonderful thing that so many people and organizations have come together to make this part of history. Thank you. I am planning a trip to the UK from Canada, and now am compelled to stop and see the fruits of your labor, and to experience the story. Amazing job!

[@britishfilminstitute]

Thank you for sharing. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vivviedarling9336]

I was shown Brief Encounter as a Theatre studies student in the early 1990s and my son has just seen it as a film production undergraduate. Safe to say that Brief Encounter is going to endure for a good while yet. I love that they restored the tea room!

[@gw0ouv1]

What a lovely story well done all the volunteers.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

I watch Brief Encounter just about every night before bed. It's romantically calming and relaxing and, of course, beautifully written and acted by an extremely talented cast!

[@feminineone9610]

I was soooooo depressed during the pandemic…thank God I discovered this movie…living alone..this was a life saver…I would a trip to this place one day 🥰🌺🙏🏽

[@maryjomagar7154]

Same here!

[@freedomofspeech6095]

I absolutely love this movie. Watched it over ten times. One of my favorites

[@lilybond6485]

Same. I’m watching it again - now.

[@worldgrill]

I love that movie and one of the greatest romantic movies ever made.I was at that station over 15 years ago and it was in bad shape. So thankful for all the wonderful people that came together to restore this for many more future movie lovers! It will always be one of the greatest British movies ever made by one of their greatest directors.Plus it is a living time capsule of that period.

[@GRAHAM1514]

Excellent ,must go there one day, one of my favorite films.

[@MrBobby99888]

As i watch the movie for lets say the 200th time today i am sitting semi quarantined still in Arizona on a 110 degree day yet am magically transformed back to pre ww2 milford junction hoping that just once they will remain together in the end but sadly it does not happen..maybe next month it will when i watch for the 201st time..its truly amazing how these 2 normal everyday people command our attention each second when they are together on screen..

[@lilybond6485]

I know. I love this movie. I’ve watched it so many times.

[@margaretlavender9647]

I agree - but it’s not ‘pre’ war. It was made late 1944/early 1945 just before the war ended 8 May 1945.

[@guidofaria6721]

I'm thrilled to come across this documentary. I watched the film a month ago and it had such a great impact on me that I referred to a good number of friends. A masterpiece. Celia Johnson takes us with her through her mind and body in a way that we feel kind of the same. I can feel it but I have no words to define. Never mind words.

[@johnmoore9862]

I have something in my eye.

[@happydays3678]

Let me help you...🤗

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

Incredible film. Can never see it enough.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

@@blueskys8876 The Browning Version is another favorite of mine.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

@@blueskys8876 There are two. The 1951 movie is the great one, but the 1994 movie, with Albert Finney, is good too.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

@@blueskys8876 Have a hankie handy. I am crying just thinking about the movie.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

@@blueskys8876 They depict a world of civility and caring. Sadly, all gone.

[@stephendavidbailey2743]

@@blueskys8876 My dad started me on classic movies. He forced me to go see Mutiny on the Bounty when I was ten. The art of great motion pictures has enthralled me since.

[@Onmysheet]

Amazing film! The production design doesn't look like it was made in 1945.

[@sktpmanable]

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[@eshjane]

Timeless classic ❤️

[@nigelwatson1443]

What a fantastic film. I remember watching it with my mum, all those years ago. I was 12, and now, this week, I'm 60. I miss my dear mum so much, it's unreal. Lovely memories 😢 but tinged with sadness. Thank you, with tears in my eyes

[@dotdoughty5504]

Must go. There. Some time. Loved. The. Film. Seen it. Loads. Of. Time. X

[@elitealex8985]

Love seeing my hometown like this

[@samempstreet379]

Jim is my father in law. 😊

[@samempstreet379]

Hunterstreet just around the corner from the station

[@elitealex8985]

Wow. And I know where hunter street is

[@samempstreet379]

Close to the coop the old cinema and the post delivery

[@elitealex8985]

I live in Carnforth

[@helenapereira8547]

The story is beyond its time...

[@jcaldu1]

Thanks for making this possible. It´s one of the best films ever!

[@petersmith4455]

well done volunteers, celia Johnson would be proud of you.

[@stephenblanchard8973]

...Carnforth Station is so atmospheric...and the Tea Room is fantastic...!!

[@CouncilOfWolves]

I visited Carnforth Station in the 1990's. It was very run down and neglected. Fantastic to see the old clock working and the station restored.

[@philwilliams2505]

Well I didn't know that ...how lovely 💖💖💖💖

[@Cool2BCeltic]

Very interesting. I have just seen Brief Encounter for the first time from beginning to end. I am a railway enthusiast who is also a film buff and I may pay Carnforth Station a visit on a planned visit to Lancashire.

[@thepagemaster2963]

Wow I just watched the film, I didn’t know it was so big.

[@lord.onk99]

Loved this.

[@erinrising2799]

I hope the refreshment shop is still in business when I am able to visit Edit: It seems the owners (depicted in this video) have sold it, and the new owners aren't having it be a refreshment shop 😭💔

[@colinvespa4709]

Destroy a golden nugget if they close it down, I wouldn't be going in if it's anything else other than brief encounter cafe.

[@margaretlavender9647]

It’s not a shop. It is a Cafe, Refreshment Room, Refreshment cafe. Choose!

[@erinrising2799]

@@margaretlavender9647 I don't have to choose, it's closed so it's neither 😝

[@joycekepic8947]

I have watched this movie the number of times and I still don’t know if I could have said goodbye?

[@garysimpson3900]

Thank you for bringing fictitious Milford Junction to life.

[@SAPBM]

My favorite movie...

[@tarantulagirl]

My favourite film

[@tallyskalynkafeldens1753]

LOVE IT!

[@marcusaurelius5524]

A good few years yet jesus, the work of coward is iconic its not a few years its forever people fall in love it obeys no rules this play portrays human love that never ever changes depite the decades that seperate it from us now, look at the look in their eyes everything about it, there is no such thing as weve afew years left hogwash, as long as humans fall in love such films of this quality that capture human emotion and even just a snapshot in time, reign for eternity, or as long as humans are as we all are precisely because we are human suffer human love, a love that obeys no rules, divine or otherwise!!!

[@Sameoldfitup]

I was there today 🇬🇧

[@loopsterh8787]

Amazing

[@nigelkthomas9501]

What really needs to happen at Carnforth is the reconstruction of the “mainline” platforms so trains heading to/from Windermere, Carlisle, Glasgow and Edinburgh can call there.

[@miriancat384]

Sensacional!!!

[@vertxxgg]

great movie we saw it in Spain too

[@shonnou]

The lovely Gentleman, (@ 3.07 ) retired Train Driver Jim Walker 71, who’s (voluntary) job had been to wind the Famous Clock at Carnforth Station Platform, has been banned from the station completely! All because an eavesdropping, nosey, Gukag Style Snitch heard a private conversation he was having where he simply stated he was concern about Adult Male Migrants claiming asylum whilst pretending to be Child Refugees. This is no slander, lie, nor hatred! Just an elderly man sharing a worry with a friend. Unfortunately it is an awful fact, that YES, 60% of child refugees are actually fully grown adults men! This is a topic that every parent should be greatly concerned about, as a dozen children have already become victims of these Adult criminals masquerading as kids! It is a disgrace that this retiree be banned from a railway station in Britain for having a valid private opinion. #proudofbritishfreespeech

[@shrubbie1]

Who banned him - Northern Rail or Network Rail or a manager? If it was a private conversation or not, he is entitled to his opinion - Compared to the typical gutter level of behaviour often witnessed on platforms and trains (Chavs and Low Life peppering 'conversation' with Fuck and Cunt etc, normally with children in earshot and behaving in an aggresive manner, I think this chaps alleged 'racism' palls in comparison...

[@samempstreet379]

People think they are victims if sombody just speaks his mind. They dont understand what freedom is, what understanding is, what society is, what life is. Love you Jim your daughter is the love of my life.

[@margaretlavender9647]

TOTALLY agree with you. Poor man, being sacked for stating the truth everyone except the government knows is fact.

[@lilybond6485]

That is sickening. Freedom of speech is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

[@lilybond6485]

“Great” needs to be removed from Great Britain.

[@susanbrandt1724]

I LOVE THIS FILM! GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR TEA ROOM. IF I WAS FLYING TO THE UK FROM US, YOU WLULD BE MY FIRST STOP! IPUT MYSRLF IN HER POSITION AND WONDER WHAT I WOULD DO.

[@citic101]

in the film the face has no letters printed on it but now it is printed Joyce ?

[@Mr85b]

citic101 in the film a cardboard cover was placed over the clock face so that they could draw the time on it as filming a 20 second scene could take many hours and it saved stopping or constantly altering the real clock.

[@citic101]

thanks that is very interesting to know

[@whouster]

Interesting coincidence that the piano concerto version used in the film was played by Eileen Joyce.

[@hairyairey]

Also interesting that the station announcer is Noel Coward himself.