Soviet Missile Train

Soviet armored train
Vehicle information
Model	Soviet armored train
Manufacturer	USSR
Behind the scenes
First seen	GoldenEye (film)
Last seen	GoldenEye 007 (1997 game)

Trevelyan's Armored Train was an old Soviet railway train outfitted with one-inch armour plating used by Alec Trevelyan to travel throughout Russia and remain mostly undetected. The vehicle appeared in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye and its video-game adaptation.

History

Armored trains were specially armored locomotives, used by the former Soviet Union to transport nuclear warheads and other such military weapons, as a means of protecting USSR arsenals by constantly keeping their current whereabouts a mystery. After the end of the Cold War, Alec Trevelyan managed to acquire one for himself and used it as the headquarters of the Janus Syndicate's Saint Petersburg division, as well as his personal residence and transportation.

James Bond later derailed it with his stolen Soviet tank to save Natalya Simonova and Trevelyan later blew it up with explosives after escaping in a small helicopter. Trevelyan had trapped both Bond and Natalya in the train's command center and informed Bond that the explosives were set for six minutes, which actually meant three minutes. While Bond went to work cutting a hole in the train's inch-thick plating, Natalya made use of a nearby computer terminal to triangulate the location of her former coworker Boris Grishenko, who was working for Trevelyan. Bond and Natalya escape moments before the train explodes.

Behind the Scenes

The sequences involving the armoured train were filmed on the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough in the UK. The train was composed of a British Rail Class 20 diesel-electric locomotive and a pair of BR Mk 1 coaches, all three heavily disguised to resemble a Soviet armoured train. The first Bond film to use computer generated imagery,the technique was used during the train derailment scene.

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