Film buffs and rail enthusiasts alike are in for a treat at a special screening of the classic film Brief Encounter at Chappel & Wakes Colne Station.
A classic film with a transport theme, Brief Encounter is being screened in the old Engine shed at Chappel station on Friday 29 July at 20:30.
The film focuses on a café at a railway station, where housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although she is already married, they gradually fall in love with each other.
Tickets, priced at £4.50, are available from Marks Tey station, the East Anglian railway museum and on the door. Refreshments will also be available on the night.
Visitors who travel to Chappel station for this special event by train, will also have the chance to enter a competition to win a first class family train ticket to London, courtesy of National Express East Anglia.
Chappel station is a picturesque station, situated on the historic Gainsborough line which runs between Marks Tey in north Essex and Sudbury, Suffolk. The station is also home to the East Anglian Railway museum which is dedicated to preserving the history of railways in the Eastern Counties.
The Gainsborough Line is a delightful rural route which runs through landscape straight out of Constable’s paintings. Running through leafy cuttings and emerging to cross the great 32 arch Chappel viaduct, striding high above the River Colne.
The line enters Suffolk with stunning views along the Stour Valley through Bures to Sudbury with its corn exchange and old inns, Victorian Quay and Gainsborough Museum.
To find out more about National Express East Anglia train services along the route, visit the website.
