Paul.Uni Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 http://www.channel4.com/programmes/coastal-railways-with-julie-walters/ 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londontram Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Thanks for that I've put it in the TV planner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Any good? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Any good? Covered some of the same ground as Portillo, but not bad, worth a watch - she was quite funny with some of the people she met. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2017 'Coffee table' scenic viewing lightweight but worth it if you like Julie Walters warm, slightly mad and funny comments. She even apologised to enthusiasts that the Skye bit would have no trains. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Had to bite my lip various times as we had all the usual mix ups re trains and locomotives and continuity errors with loco's changing completely at the head of the train. My wife enjoyed the scenery..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Depot Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Found the Portillio ones to be rather lacking trains in the end.....so will watch out for this in the hope that trains are to be seen somewhere in the program! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrk Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 So, the Jacobite 'engine' was the co-star of Harry Potter films? I didn't know there were Black 5s and K1s in Harry Potter. Chringe, chringe. Scenery was nice though. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chriswright03 Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2017 Had to bite my lip various times as we had all the usual mix ups re trains and locomotives and continuity errors with loco's changing completely at the head of the train. My wife enjoyed the scenery..... I was going to predict this response but thought I would just wait for the appearance. It was as quick as I expected. It is 'light' entertainment and not aimed at us 'experts'. I thought the cows were cute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killybegs Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Had to bite my lip various times as we had all the usual mix ups re trains and locomotives and continuity errors with loco's changing completely at the head of the train. My wife enjoyed the scenery..... I suppose we should be thankful that they at least used library stock for the correct line/period. Apart from the odd technical gaff, I thought Julie Walters presentation was very entertaining. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 So, the Jacobite 'engine' was the co-star of Harry Potter films? I didn't know there were Black 5s and K1s in Harry Potter. Chringe, chringe. Scenery was nice though. Dave. Its because the alleged "Harry Potter" train rescued the canoeists a couple of months ago..... I'll dig it up on the C4 streaming service, sounds like it'll be good viewing for a cold, wet, windy afternoon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I was going to predict this response but thought I would just wait for the appearance. It was as quick as I expected. It is 'light' entertainment and not aimed at us 'experts'. I thought the cows were cute. Glad to have been of service.... ....and I agree, the Highland Cattle were cute....particularly the round up. Now where's my udder cream..... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2017 Julie Walters being funny and some are more interested in the cows Certainly worth setting the recorder for the next episodes on the strength of this as a bit of fun tv. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 (edited) Had to bite my lip various times as we had all the usual mix ups re trains and locomotives and continuity errors with loco's changing completely at the head of the train. And the obligatory "cooking breakfast on the coal shovel" scene. (IIRC a number of RMWebbers with knowledge of this sort of thing have mentioned on other threads how such a practice would not necessarily have been recommended on the 'real' railway, given some other uses that the coal shovel was sometimes pressed in to...) I did wonder where on Skye the scenes with the seanchaí were shot - it looked awfully like the coastline just down the road from where we stayed on the Misty Isle this summer. Duirinish is quite as charming as depicted in the programme. Disappointed that she didn't mention that Thomas Telford engineered the bridge that carries the 'main' road across the Allt Dhuirinis. Edited November 27, 2017 by ejstubbs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2017 Episode 3 will be my cup of tea when it covers the West Country and features Kingswear and St Ives. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Another one of those programmes where someone has an idea and all the TV companies have to do their own version. Essentially harmless TV for an early evening. Expect an ITV one soon called something like Railway Journeys With My Dog featuring Julia Bradbury. Any TV producers can have that one. Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 27, 2017 (edited) And the obligatory "cooking breakfast on the coal shovel" scene. (IIRC a number of RMWebbers with knowledge of this sort of thing have mentioned on other threads how such a practice would not necessarily have been recommended on the 'real' railway, given some other uses that the coal shovel was sometimes pressed in to...) It's OK so long as you leave the shovel in the fire long enough between the two processes. Edited November 29, 2017 by Dunsignalling 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Another one of those programmes where someone has an idea and all the TV companies have to do their own version. ...Expect an ITV one soon called something like Railway Journeys With My Dog featuring Julia Bradbury... And 'Antiques Railshow' fronted by Fiona Bruce, 'Timetable Team' with Tony Robinson, 'That Was The Wailway That Was' to give Joanthon Woss something to do; oh the potential... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted November 27, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 27, 2017 (edited) It just seems a bit too close to "Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank" Edited November 27, 2017 by Andy Kirkham Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Turtle Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 So, the Jacobite 'engine' was the co-star of Harry Potter films? I didn't know there were Black 5s and K1s in Harry Potter. Chringe, chringe. Scenery was nice though. Dave. The K1 briefly appeared in the flying Ford Anglia scene on a close up, with 5972's smokebox plate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 (edited) I think this gets my prize for the least original programme of the year. It used a format that others have excecuted far more effectively and I don't think it told me a single thing that I didn't already know. I've seen the herrings, the smokehouse, the concrete viaduct and the place where SOE trained its agents and I'm not sure if they weren't all in one of the Portillo programmes. Channel 4 is supposed to be about new and original television but this was programme making by numbers and I'm wondering what the pitch was "This is a series just like that BBC one with Michael Portillo only with Julie Walters" ? Railways can make for good television but that shouldn't be the last creative thought the producer comes up with. Railway Walks was an original idea; so was Extreme Railways and so was Great Railway Journeys when the BBC first came up with it. This wasn't. Edited November 28, 2017 by Pacific231G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2017 It used a format that others have excecuted far more effectively and I don't think it told me a single thing that I didn't already know. I've seen the herrings, the smokehouse, the concrete viaduct and the place where SOE trained its agents Perhaps so, but for all that, it was still warm, harmless fun amidst a veritable ocean of horrible, stressful modern TV productions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2017 I think this gets my prize for the least original programme of the year. Ooh what's the prize? Is it cake? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted November 29, 2017 Share Posted November 29, 2017 Ooh what's the prize? Is it cake? Sadly no. It's a quick thwack with the delete button on my Tivo. I'm sure there are very many other programmes out there that are even less original but since I've managed to avoid them I can't award them any prizes. If the best thing anyone had found to say about one of my programmes was that it was "harmless" I'd have been mortified. Even with a well established format there's always something new you can bring to it but to do that you have to care. Without that this format is just "Down Your Way" (Home Service/R4 a long time ago) It's interesting to compare this with a programme like Miles Kington's Peru in Great Railway Journeys which was imaginatively shot, genuinely fascinating and based on a really well written. script. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted November 29, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 29, 2017 It's a quick thwack with the delete button on my Tivo. I don't know what a 'Tivo' is, but I'm sure this is a good solution for you. In the meantime, it remains a harmless piece of lightweight pleasure for many of the rest of us. I'm sorry I'm not as erudite and endowed with such critical faculties, but I just like that sort of stuff. It helps de-stress me and is an antidote to much of the genuine dross or almost sadistically stressful stuff (done in the name of 'realistic drama', no doubt) on TV these days. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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