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DARLTON QUARRY, STONEY MIDDLETON - (1) Filming had been underway for some months for the latest installment of the Mission Impossible franchise. This film features a train crash and this locomotive was especially built for this scene. Based on the plans of a BR 'Britannia' Class Pacific with modification to make it look more French, it is said to have cost well over a million pounds to build. It has a small diesel engine in the tender to move slowly and a steam generator in the boiler. It was pushed down a specially laid track at Darlton Quarry, Stone Middleton, Derbyshire, on Friday August 20th, 2021, to be destroyed when it hit the quarry floor. Here we see it simmering gently as all is prepared. Obviously, it had to be right because only one take was possible.