"Could You Really Say Goodbye?" - Brief Encounter's Carnforth Station | BFI

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI. Carnforth station Heritage Centre Manager John Adams and owner of The Refreshment Room Andrew Coates discuss the featured 19th-century station were David Lean’s classic British romance Brief Encounter (1945) was shot. Retired rail worker and Carnforth clock keeper Jim Walker talks about the iconic 1895 clock on the main platform and how it was thought lost for years until a mysterious benefactor contacted the station and the original clock was put up again in 2002. David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945), starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, was named the best movie romance of all time by a panel of 101 actors, directors and critics. Watch more on the BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ Follow us on Twitter:   / bfi   Like us on Facebook:   / britishfilminstitute   Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilmi... Turbulent passion and middle-class restraint combine in uniquely English style when a married woman falls for a doctor she meets at a railway station. Film details Year 1945 Director David Lean Featuring Celia Johnson , Trevor Howard , Stanley Holloway