This interim test blog is meant to help illustrate a series of innovative rail-themed films, music, digital media, visual arts and live performances etc that support the case for applying new Creative Culture Principles to our 200 year-old passenger railways. This preliminary blog site has been created by Ian Banks, who is presently working as an arts consultant with Design Council for Network Rail.
Thursday, May 7, 1970
TV Documentary & Live Performance: Blues and Gospel Train (Granada TV 1964)
The “Blues and Gospel Train” was staged on May 7, 1964 by Granada TV. 200 fans were instructed to meet at Manchester’s Central Station at 7:30 that evening for a short train ride to the abandoned Wilbraham Road Station in Whalley Range, where a huge platform sign displaying the word ‘Chorltonville’. They had seats on the platform. The opposite platform was decorated with bales of cotton, sacks, crates, broken-down farm equipment, washtubs, wanted posters and even some farm animals.
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