The Globe Tavern is a pub in the south London borough of Southwark, close by Borough Market. Above and behind looms one of the Station Approach overpasses that carry a heavy flow of passenger train traffic into nearby London Bridge Station.

Trains at night can create a mysterious, often ominous and foreboding mood. Something about those lighted windows against the pitch black of night sky, vivid sparks from interrupted contacts with third rail or overhead catenary. There is also the sound aspect – the formidable crescendo of rumble and clatter and screech of wheels as the train approaches and flashes past.

And if that train happens to be on an overpass, hurtling past old buildings of dark brick illuminated by the occasional street lamp…

That was the ominous atmosphere created in a scene in the Michael Caine crime-thriller "Blue Ice." In the film, the Globe Tavern became the run-down, sleazy "Critchley Hotel," scene of two murders Caine encounters. The scenes made effective use of those arcing blue sparks created by the electric railway above and behind the building.

I first discovered the area around Borough Market and the Station Approach overpasses in November 2012 and there was this very strong feeling of deja-vu -- engendered, of course, by vivid memories of that scene in "Blue Ice."

So, when I returned to London last November, I knew I had to find that building in Southwark with the railway overpass above and behind, and to shoot it - and the trains - by night.

Next year I shall return and raise a glass -- inside the Globe.