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Films & Newsreels shown on Trains 1938/39

Alf

Alf

Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
Has any member ever heard of this before.

I read it in my Daily Paper this morning and the Question was.

I went on holiday with my parents in 1938/39 to Dunoon one Coach had a Cinema which showed a Newsreel and a couple of short films.
Was this possible at the time.

It did happen Pathe News did it after trials in 1936 but I can't find anything about it on the Web
:)
 
From https://www.glias.org.uk/news/228news.html#Bhttps://www.glias.org.uk/news/228news.html#D
"The book 'Islington's Cinemas and Film Studios' mentions another kind of cinema associated with Finsbury Park; these were the cinema coaches operated by the LNER in the twenties and thirties. The first cinema carriage was converted from a GNR saloon and seated 44. The service started on the Flying Scotsman departing King's Cross on 12 March 1924. The cinema coach went as far as York and then returned to King's Cross, passing through Finsbury Park twice on a daily basis. Before high speeds, a rail journey from Edinburgh to London was a protracted affair, something on the lines of a land cruise. One got to know ones travelling companions very well indeed and probably took breakfast, lunch and tea with them before arrival at King's Cross. The possibility of a 2-3 hour break watching a film would have been very welcome.
A second cinema coach, converted from a brake van, showed talking pictures and was introduced on the King's Cross to Leeds service on 27 May 1935. The go-ahead LNER already had on-board hairdressing saloons and a wireless service and another improved cinema coach was introduced in March 1936. When war was declared in September 1939 both the remaining coaches had their cinema equipment removed and returned to brake van usage. Along with much else of pre-war railway luxury the cinema service never resumed."

Also, one cinema coach survives:
https://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/LNWR_No112.HTM
 
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I love train travel, imagine eating dinner with like minded people and then seeing a film. And they said it was only the Orient Express that was Grand.
Thank you Lloyd for the picture you painted.:)
 
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