Pitt and Jolie let train take strain as Glasgow doubles for zombie city

The Hollywood stars were among 300 passengers on the Virgin Train which arrived in Glasgow for the filming of the World War Z film.

Parts of Glasgow city centre are being turned into streets resembling the United States city of Philadelphia for the film.

Silver people carriers with tinted glass were allowed onto platform 11 at the station to take Pitt and Jolie away after they arrived at around 2.30pm yesterday.

Crowds were kept more than five metres away from the beginning of the platform and views were blocked by one of the vehicles.

Elsewhere in the city, work crews were putting up yellow traffic lights, while yellow taxis and white Philadelphia police cars were parked around George Square, a few streets from the station.

Signs for 16th street and “J F Kennedy Bl” were also visible in the area. Glasgow City Council said the production will involve almost 1,200 people when on location and the impact on the local economy is likely to be more than £2m.

Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow City Council, said: “It is amazing to see all this work by the film crew to transform our city into a little slice of America. We hope that by having a Hollywood blockbuster like World War Z filming in Glasgow, our city will go on to attract other productions of a similar size.”