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Originally Posted by melade
Sounds a bit like this:
The Viaduct (TV mini-series 1972) - IMDb
Apparently some kids find an old engine bricked up in a bridge, and I think there is a bit of a timeslip/time travel element to it.
E.
I often think of a series I saw when I was quite young so it's probably early to mid 70's.
It was a british childrens tv series which had something to do with an old upright piano (?) that was found in a workshop (?) in an arch under an old railway bridge. I think that a document of some sort was found inside it. I don't know whether there was a time travel/sci fi/spooky aspect to the series but I remember finding it a little disturbing but it might be simply because of my young age at the time.
Whilst re-reading this prior to posting, I thought to myself "was it a railway bridge?" and this conjured up in my mind a picture of Stephenson's Rocket. I think that this might be relevant.
Sounds a bit like this:
The Viaduct (TV mini-series 1972) - IMDb
Apparently some kids find an old engine bricked up in a bridge, and I think there is a bit of a timeslip/time travel element to it.
E.
Can't find much about the television serial but here's a synopsis of Ray Brown's source novel:
The Viaduct. 1968. "Orphaned ten-year-old Phil Benson is intrigued by his grandfather's persistent and secretive search for money supposedly buried by his ancestor Ebenezer Benson, an eccentric genius who had worked with the famous English inventor George Stephenson and died an embittered miser. After his grandfather's death, Phil and his friend Andy Smith, with the help of an elderly amateur railroad historian, finally unravel the mystery of Ebenezer's buried treasure which turns out to be not money but a find of historic importance in railroading....."
E.
Thank you. I think you've solved another one.
I would have been 6 or 7 at the time of transmission which fits in with how I remember it. My memory of it is so vague, a couple of children outside in the sun in a run down industrial location in front of railway arches with what I thought was an old piano though might have been a desk with one of them discovering a document in it. Other than a sense that the arches were significant and a feeling of mild dread, that was all I could remember until I was typing my post and I thought of an image of Stephenson's Rocket. I now think that I can remember the end of it but would love to find a clip or a photograph so that I can put pictures to a memory that is now little more than a feeling.
It's weird how this particular series has always stayed with me. I probably go for a couple of years without thinking of it but when I do, though vague, it's always a familiar memory.
Anyway, thanks again for solving this. Your efforts in putting names to these slivers of information is appreciated.
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