UK’s last cinema carriage to screen first film in 37 years after restoration

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The UK’s last remaining cinema carriage has been saved by passionate volunteers and friends of its former manager. Credit: Railway 200A restored cinema carriage will host a film screening for the first time in 37 years on September 13 and 14 for a special Railway 200 celebration. The cinema coach went on to screen British Rail staff training films until 1988, before being used as a meeting room in a Bristol depot in 1991. In his final years, its former manager Alan Willmott feared the carriage would be scrapped and its history lost. Article continues below…“Much of the restoration work was done by volunteers at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway, and it’s just stunning.