Love Match, The

The film opens with a view from the front of a train as it enters a smoky tunnel where the titles appear in the darkness.

With the credits over, the speeding train emerges from the tunnel.

The 204 goods from Milford Junction rushes through a station at over 60 miles an hour.

More of the platform passes in a blur.

A Signalman spots the train and runs inside the signalbox to report to Mr. Longworth the shed-master.

Another freight train is passed as it waits on a loop line.

As kick off approaches at the stadium where City are playing United, Bill Brown's train speeds over a crossing.

Bill Brown (Arthur Askey) runs to turn his engine as his fireman Wally Binns (Glenn Melvyn) calls for him to hurry up. Jonathan Horswell at the Railway Movie Database advises that the engine is number 44543 on the turntable at Newton Heath engine shed in Manchester, Lancashire.

Sent out by the Mr. Longworth, Mr. Clark (Derek Kirby) calls out to Bill as he climbs into Wally's sidecar.

The two City supporters ride away to the game on Wally's motorcycle combination.

Passing through the engine shed, Bill and Wally throw their completed job card towards a group of Enginemen reading notices.

Out in the open again, Wally steers towards the depot's exit. Newton Heath locomotive shed in Manchester.

This is the road leading from Newton Heath engine shed onto Dean Lane with the Railway Hotel at the apex of Dean Lane and St. Mary's Road to the right.

Bill urges Wally to drive faster. Growing up in the area, John Hyde recognised Nelson Street in Bolton, Lancashire.

A corner is turned near a brewery. Lever Street at the northern end of Nelson Street located by John Hyde who adds that in the right background is Lever Street Bridge, a footbridge over the railway to the south of Bolton Trinity Street station.

The two workmates reach the football ground where the big match is already under way. The Valley, Charlton Athletic's ground on Floyd Road in Charlton SE7.

Finding the gates closed and a sign reading "Ground Full", Bill and Wally look for another way in. Rose Hill Junction in Bolton, Lancashire with the Railway and Rose Hill tanneries in the background.

The pair scale the ground's perimeter wall, climbing over to watch the match from the stands. Rose Hill Junction Signalbox with the back of Burden Park's half-time scoreboard over the perimeter wall to the right identified in the Railway Movie Database.

After his father manages to get arrested at the match, amateur footballer Percy Brown (James Kenney) leaves the house with his bike before the family's new lodger arrives. The Crescent in Southall, Middlesex with the Water Tower visible to the left.

68 years on, Antony Blair returned to The Crescent to find that some alterations had occured.

Wally cycles from court after Bill is fined £5 for throwing a pie at the referee during the match. Between the Rose Hill and Railway tanneries on Nelson Street in Bolton, Lancashire with a Bolton Transport bus on route 3 from Townleys to the left.

The fireman heads for Bill's home to take money from the railway holiday club fund without his wife Sal finding out. Facing north on Nelson Street, Bolton.

Wally rides into a back street where Children are playing.

The bike's bell causes the youngsters to move out of Wally's way as he comes to a stand outside the back of Bill's house. John Hyde identifies Back Crescent Road in Bolton.

Bill goes to work after finding that the new lodger is Arthur Ford, the referee that he threw a pie at. Gregor Baddley recognised the sequence featuring Watford Junction station in Hertfordshire which was originally seen in the 1945 film 'Brief Encounter'. Since then it has become a well used piece of railway stock footage used in many British films.

Sunday morning sees Mr. Ford being well looked after at the breakfast table by Sal Brown.

After partnering with her at a ballroom dancing competition the previous evening, Alf Hall (Danny Ross) calls on Rose Brown. Facing numbers 32 to 30 The Crescent in Southall with the backs of properties on Randolph Road in the left background.

Since the houses on The Crescent were demolished in the 2000s, the properties on Randolph Road are revealed in Antony Blair's view

Outside the house, Bill and Wally admire Alf's posh van when Mr. Ford arrives and tells them that young Alf is the son of United's chairman. The Crescent in Southall with Southall West Station signal box beyond the wall.

Alf and Rose drive away with Percy and Vera after a row caused by her father forbidding her to go out with the son of a United director. The Crescent in Southall, Middlesex with South Road in the right background.

With nothing recognisable left at the scene, Antony Blair faced east along a new road.

When Percy returns home after being asked to sign as a player for United, Bill goes to the pub to get drunk. The Bedford Park Hotel at 223 Streatham High Road SW16 closing in 2009.

Amelia Randall's comparison shows that the hotel has become a luggage shop, with the sign on the left suggesting a non-existent saloon bar. (SR)

Percy Brown trains with United. Tony Onslow identifies this as the North, or Covered, end at The Valley on Floyd Road in Charlton SE7, home to Charlton Athletic AFC.

Alf and Rose get through to the next round of the ballroom dancing competition. The Locarno Ballroom on Streatham Hill, London SW2.

This edifice went up in 2016. Before demolishment in 2015, the Locarno went through several name changes ending up with Caesars Nightclub.

The camera tilts down to find the entrance of the Locarno at 156 to 160 Streatham Hill in Streatham.

A recently added floating bus stop and tree compromised the angle a little. The site is just north of the Streatham Hill Station where the thoroughfare running south becomes Streatham High Road. SJ

After three weeks of training, the following Saturday Percy is selected to play. Charlton Athletics's The Valley ground on Floyd Road SE7, the outside of which was seen earlier as well as in 'The Silent Playground'.

Bill and Wally count up the proceeds after take bets on the City versus United cup tie in an attempt to win back the money borrowed from the holiday club. Looking north-west inside Bolton Motive Power Depot off Crescent Road with the coaling stage in the right background advises John Hyde.

Mr. Longworth sends Bill and Wally to Milford Junction for a priority job.

A truck containing high explosives stands in one of the sidings near Bill's train. John Hyde explains that this is Manchester Road Goods Yard adjacent to Trinity Street station in Bolton.

In order to get home quicker to watch the match, Bill and Wally take the tarpaulin from the explosives truck to place on a wagon on their train. Bolton's Manchester Road Goods Yard with the goods warehouse to the top left identified by John Hyde. The warehouse was demolished in 1984.

As the cup tie kicks off, Bill and Wally's train builds up speed.

The line is cleared when reports are received about an out of control train carrying high explosives.

Passenger trains are held to let the special goods through.

The score is 2 - 0 to United. The West Side Terrace, the largest in England, at The Valley in London SE7 identified by Tony Onslow who notes that during the film, a player takes a shot at Burnden Park in Bolton and the ball hits the back of the net at Charlton over 200 miles away!

Level crossing gates are quickly opened for the passage of Bill's train.

The special goods draws to a stand at the back of the terraces in time for Bill to see his son score. Railway End Terrace at Burnden Park in Bolton, Lancashire identified on the Railway Movie Database.

Getting fired from their main line jobs, Bill and Wally find alternative employment. Jonathan Horswell suggests that this is the Ruislip Lido Miniature Railway and making out RLMR on the loco's tender we think that he's right. Ruislip Lido lies off Reservoir Road in Ruislip, Middlesex.