20 Things You Didn’t Know About Octopussy (1983)

7. “You’re Going To Stop That Train.”

Octopussy’s train, which transports her troupe between Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany and Feldstadt in West Germany, was filmed on The Nene Valley Railway, which later featured in GoldenEye (1995). Train carriages were sourced from all over Europe to lend authenticity to the sequence and a Danish State Railway locomotive DSB S No. 740 doubled for a German state locomotive DR 62.015.

Stunt team supervisor, Martin Grace doubled for Roger Moore atop the train whilst it tore through the countryside, but ran into difficulties whilst scaling Octopussy’s carriage.

Dangerous obstacles had been cleared from part of the railway track, but filming overran into an unchecked area and Grace was accidentally struck by a concrete post concealed in a clump of bushes, shattering his left leg and hip. He is shown being dragged along by the train in the finished film.

The filmmakers stopped the train and rushed Grace to hospital, where he spent several months recovering. Paul Weston took over as both the stunt team supervisor and Roger Moore’s double in the remaining train scenes, but Martin Grace returned for A View to a Kill.

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