It’s back to Auckland to find where the Pevensies stay with Professor Kirke ( Jim Broadbent). Opened in 1862, and having operated for over 100 years before closing to main line services, Highley is now the station for the Severn Valley Railway’s Engine House Visitor Centre.įrom Highley the train journeys north, crossing the Oldbury Viaduct en route to Bridgnorth – and that’s all there is of England. ‘Pewsey Station’, where the first evacuees receive a warm welcome on the train’s first stop, is Highley Railway Station on the SVR line in Shropshire. The subsequent railway journey to ‘Coombe Halt’ is the only section filmed in the UK, on the the Severn Valley Railway, a full-size, standard-gauge steam railway, running 16 miles between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire, also seen in the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps. The film’s New Zealand North Island base was the old Hobsonville Air Base in northwestern Auckland, where most of the spectacular sets were built, including London’s ‘Paddington Station’, as the Pevensie children are evacuated from the capital to avoid the bombing of the city during WWII. Lewis’s thinly veiled Christian allegory also used the stark, rocky landscapes of the Czech Republic. Close friends CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien both wrote epic fantasy novels inspired by the English countryside, so when it came to bringing the Lord Of The Rings and The Chronicles Of Narnia to the big screen, it was inevitable the films would be shot in – New Zealand.
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