Monday 20 Apr 2009
MEDIA INVITE: WANT TO FAST TRACK YOUR PRODUCTION?
- Region & Route:
- National
What? Official Launch of Network Rail Commercial Filming Service
Where? The Grand, St. Pancras International Station, London
When? Wednesday 29 April, 1800 - 2100, champagne and canapés
Network Rail is delighted to invite you to the exclusive launch of its specialist commercial filming service and new website.
Train stations and the railway have always played a supporting role in film and television. Network Rail is one of Britain’s largest landowners. One of its exciting and unique locations could be the Sundance Kid to your Butch Cassidy or Robin to your Batman. Our property portfolio is extensive and diverse enabling us to cater for all scale of productions from Hollywood blockbusters such as Harry Potter and The Bourne Ultimatum to smaller TV dramas and adverts.
In addition to our 18 managed stations across Britain, our varied collection of property also includes hundreds of unusual and exciting locations available for filming access. From rat-runs and urban office spaces to rural settings and iconic landmarks such as the Forth Bridge, it’s likely we’ll have something that will suit your needs.
Network Rail will premier its exclusive showreel of past productions and commercial filming manager Rachel Whitburn will be available for interview.
Please RSVP to Dayle Sellars at: dayle.sellars@networkrail.co.uk or 020 3356 9536 before Monday 27th April.
About Network Rail
We own, operate and develop Britain's railway infrastructure; that's 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. We run 20 of the UK's largest stations while all the others, over 2,500, are run by the country's train operating companies.
Usually, there are almost five million journeys made in the UK and over 600 freight trains run on the network. People depend on Britain's railway for their daily commute, to visit friends and loved ones and to get them home safe every day. Our role is to deliver a safe and reliable railway, so we carefully manage and deliver thousands of projects every year that form part of the multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan, to grow and expand the nation's railway network to respond to the tremendous growth and demand the railway has experienced - a doubling of passenger journeys over the past 20 years.
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