'A Brief Encounter' - The Filming locations
Created | Updated Mar 12, 2004
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Two strangers meet by in a railway station refreshment room and are attracted to each other. But there's a problem. They're both married!
Background and Locations
"A Brief Encounter" was adapted from a one act play by Noel Coward called "Still Life" which was set only in the railway station refreshment room. To fill out the original play, the script now expands out onto the platform and off the station into Milford and onwards to the very scenic surrounding countryside. Below is a list of the various filming locations.
Milford Junction Station
The platform scenes were all filmed at Carnforth Station in Lancashire. The refreshment room scenes though were actually shot in a set at Denham Studios
The Town of Milford
The town scenes were shot in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. 'Boots' lending library, where Laura changes her library book, is reported to have been the interior of W.H. Smiths in the town and the 'Kardomah Café' was actually called 'Five Ways Café' and situated on the opposite side of the road.
The Palladium Cinema
The balcony scene in the Palladium was shot in the Metropole Cinema in Victoria, London, but the outside of the Paladium was a set built near the car park of Denham Film Studios. Incidentally, Irene Handl was not actually playing the organ in that scene. The music - "March Militaire" was played by an organist called James Whitbread and added in later.
The boating lake where Alec Harvey falls in, was filmed in Regents Park, London.
Finally,the scenes at the bridge in the countryside that Alec and Laura drive out to was filmed at 'Middle Fell Bridge' over Langdale Beck, situated close to Ambleside in the Lake District. Many of the film production team were staying nearby.
