Blenheim Park Railway Blenheim Park Railway Blenheim Park Railway is a gauge miniature railway operating in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. The railway opened in 1975 as a tourist attraction within 'The Pleasure Gardens', an area of visitor facilities inside the grounds of the Palace, but some distance from the house itself. Miniature railway operating company 'Pleasurerail' operated the service on a short out-and-back line. There were no passing loops or run-round loops, so the line was push-pull operated. The original locomotive was named "Sir Winston Churchill" (not to be confused with the current locomotive of the same name), and
Blenheim Palace in film and media that have shot scenes at Blenheim Palace, include the following: A number of sources also credit the Berlin book-burning rally in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" as having been filmed at Blenheim Palace. However, these scenes were actually filmed at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. The Roman Style Bridge features in synthpop band OMD's music video for their 1981 single, "Souvenir." Other parts of the video show band member Andy McCluskey driving his Volkswagen Karmann Ghia through the grounds. The BBC Radio Four programme "Just a Minute" was recorded (twice) at Blenheim with Clement Freud, Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones and