Hobby Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Don't forget bridges, equipment cabinets, etc. Keith The ones on the platform at Leamington Spa take down the wagon numbers of the freights that go through... You forgot them!! ...via the central reservation of the M62? Hardshoulder more like! One of the organisers posted on another forum, they are looking more at canals (towpath I assume!)... Madness... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2016 ".... and next week on BBC4, Pokémon Spotting Live. Watch people randomly wave their phones around, imagining they are seeing things...." BTW - Phil, I copped G-XLEL on it's way back to Vancouver, so that's cleared the current British Airways fleet of Airbus A380s Recently I was tempted to 'plane spot' using the Plane Finder thingy as we have loads of Trans Atlantic to Europe stuff over Retford and the 'local' in and out of Robin Hood. Just sit in the Conservatory, wait for something to flag up, go outside, spot it and the log it. Still have not quite plucked up the courage to do that. However, when tracking SWMBO's flight back from Greece to Manchester, I was absolutely gobsmacked at what showed up on the screen; even gliders and psssibly some hang Gliders (presumably) along with some very 'interesting' private planes. Whole new hobby for me I think? Oh look, there's a 737 (or whatever they are)! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium HillsideDepot Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2016 Living in Chippenham we also get a lot of trans-Atlantic traffic coming overhead inbound, and visible in the distance outbound. We used to be treated to Hercules into RAF Lyneham, but they moved to Brize Norton a few years ago. However, we are on the route from Brize to the south and get their fleet over regularly, including at very low level. We're also on the delivery route between Airbus Military and Brize, so getting an A400M on its delivery flight is bit of a "prize" (likewise a Boeing coming over from the US on delivery). But, and I hope this is bringing my ramblings back on-topic, I find it fascinating to know where the planes are going or have been. I'm quite selective (British Airways 747, A380, 787/9, Virgin 747, 787/9 and RAF C-130, C17, Voyager and A400M), but that gives me enough to look at, albeit mainly on screen. A few months back I watched The Cornish Riviera leave Reading, next stop Exeter St Davids. To look at it was just another blue HST, not even one of the green GWR ones, but the name, the idea of running all the way to Exeter without stopping, the Sea Wall that lies beyond, the Devon Banks, Plymouth, Cornwall and finally Penzance. That's special! (or I'm mad, one or the other). Likewise seeing (or more usually hearing) Air Tanker's G-VYGJ passing overhead around midnight twice a week working the Falklands Air-Bridge, knowing what it is, where it is going, does something to me. It fascinates me! How many other people around here notice the lower than usual British Airways plane passing overhead, on its way ECS (I doubt they use that term) between Heathrow and the maintenance base at Cardiff? Or watch them coming back, hoping the engineers have bolted everything back on securely! I didn't watch the Trainspotting Live programmes (my TV is a merely a screen for showing DVDs and videos) but from what I've read in this thread it doesn't suggest they captured the thrill of the chase (or watching the screen, seeing the plane approach, and going outside only to be thwarted by a cloud bank!), or indeed the sense of each movement being part of a much bigger plan. Yes, I admit, I enjoy "ticking" a new loco or a new plane, but really the number/registration is a means to trace an individual. Will ZZ336 be the tanker again today? Will the two Hercules that went off early come back over me? When will I get a proper look at G-XLEL rather than it being a very distant shape?That is the fun of "spotting" to me, be it on rails or in the air. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 This advert appeared as a post on the New Railway Modellers Forum (surprised they didn't post on here), as you would expect it did not attract much positive comment, however shares in Peco have soared on the prospect of the TV company purchasing 300,000 lengths of streamline! Jim I reckon the old scallies will be pinching the track as fast as they can lay it. It'll never make it out of Liverpool. Eh! Eh! Calm down, calm down! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimbus Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Its odd considering that the BBC has produced a couple of the most popular films, "Metroland' and 'A Branch Line', on the S & D, could go so wrong with this series. Both these featured an older chap with a trilby and a wrinkled mac; hardly the presenter image but he seemed to carry it off better. Are you thinking of Count Arthur Strong? I am! The Nim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
talisman56 Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Class 390 at Wick?!!! Me thinks that tweet was not telling the truth! Revisiting this one, it seems to me that someone with expert knowledge in the background screening the Tweets, etc coming in would have spotted this one and kicked it into touch before it got on the air... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 The ones on the platform at Leamington Spa take down the wagon numbers of the freights that go through... You forgot them!! Hardshoulder more like! One of the organisers posted on another forum, they are looking more at canals (towpath I assume!)... Madness... A canal towpath would be a terribly harsh environment. Apart from the natural problems (proximity to water, width, surface composition, vegetation, the bits where the towpath crumbles into the canal), there's also the unnatural brigade - lunatics on mountain bikes, lunatics on foot, lunatic coarse anglers and strange people hanging around under bridges. There's also the boats wanting to moor with their big iron mooring pins and wet, hairy ropes, and the boaters, their children and their dogs. Then, up in the wild Pennines, the canal will dive into a tunnel for a couple of miles, whilst the scenery rises hundreds of feet above them. And those tunnels don't have towpaths. Not a good idea! Perhaps they want to drain a canal and build the track along the bed? Its been done prototypically, but.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2016 Perhaps they want to drain a canal and build the track along the bed? Its been done prototypically, but.... It still exists on Bord Na Mona in Ireland doesn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 It still exists on Bord Na Mona in Ireland doesn't it? Really love that shot, where about on the BNM is it taken, do you know? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Phil Parker Posted July 15, 2016 Administrators Share Posted July 15, 2016 Revisiting this one, it seems to me that someone with expert knowledge in the background screening the Tweets, etc coming in would have spotted this one and kicked it into touch before it got on the air... I think it might tell the producers rather more about the "enthusiast" community this way. Realistically, you'd likely need a bank of people to deal with Tweet vetting for the hour as this could get very busy. Initially the "community" would delight in sending in non-obvious errors to crow about but I suspect that the producers would just learn the hard way to dump the lot and use a selected and trustworthy small team, or demand video proof, if they bothered with the feature at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 ...via the central reservation of the M62? ... and with the help of Aardman Animations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2016 Really love that shot, where about on the BNM is it taken, do you know? I've never actually managed to get there. I *think* it's somewhere SE of Ballinasloe on the opposite side of the Shannon from Shannonbridge power station. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Posted Today, 12:16 brianusa, on 14 Jul 2016 - 20:54, said: Its odd considering that the BBC has produced a couple of the most popular films, "Metroland' and 'A Branch Line', on the S & D, could go so wrong with this series. Both these featured an older chap with a trilby and a wrinkled mac; hardly the presenter image but he seemed to carry it off better. "an older chap with a trilby and a wrinkled mac"; perhaps an apt description for The late Poet Laurette, Sir John Betjeman, Gentleman and Scholar of all things in Railway, Tubes, and Architectural oddities, and a passion for Joan Hunter Dunn in his poem "A Subaltern's Love-song"......... Stephen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Not confirmed, but BBC 4 bosses have expressed approval for the viewing figures for the shows, which beat Top Gears lowest audience............!!!! Chris Evans will not like that!........so it looks like more shows will be scheduled, but with tweaks to the format I am told, and maybe a certain gentleman with a 'tashe being promoted to presenter..... Stephen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2016 That's great news. I suggest that as soon as we know where they are we invade en masse (if local that is....,I'm not travelling hundreds of miles just to look a prat, I can do that here) Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 That's great news. I suggest that as soon as we know where they are we invade en masse (if local that is....,I'm not travelling hundreds of miles just to look a prat, I can do that here) Phil What are you planning, an Anorak Invasion, a Flash Crowd, ....Ooh..... that term should not go with men in anoraks!!! and taking boys train-spotting could be completely misconstrued these days, especially en masse........... The Suns Treegate story sent the viewing figures sky high...... Stephen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2016 I'm still looking to spot the holy grail class 390 at Wick. Have looked all over station but no sign............ Perplexed in Wick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 I've never actually managed to get there. I *think* it's somewhere SE of Ballinasloe on the opposite side of the Shannon from Shannonbridge power station. I feel a 'long weekend' coming on; after I smash my way through this slug of work - punctuated by dental extractions Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 "an older chap with a trilby and a wrinkled mac"; perhaps an apt description for The late Poet Laurette, Sir John Betjeman, Gentleman and Scholar of all things in Railway, Tubes, and Architectural oddities, and a passion for Joan Hunter Dunn in his poem "A Subaltern's Love-song"......... Stephen. That's the unnamed inspiration for my comment although I figured everybody would know him from the description. A delightful fellow who as Stephen mentions dabbled in many things and loved many others including all things to do with railways, old buildings and he finally picked St Enodoc church in one of his favourite counties as his last resting place. He probably dabbled in churches also! Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Typical of the French to say one thing and mean another... oops!! (original message duly corrected) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Plane spotting... how the hell do you get the number when they fly so high up...??!!?? Sorry, coat, hat etc... They're usually on a panel near the radio, you can't miss them but if they're numbers it's an American plane, most civilised countries use letters. The CAA thinks that if the reg can be read from the ground then you must have been guilty of low flying, they don't know about lying toerags with binoculars. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium MJI Posted July 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2016 They NEED to look more at the heritage side, show why an over 50 year old locomotive is still the best in its power class in the UK. How about the history of the EE engined shunter, 1930s until today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 I'm still looking to spot the holy grail class 390 at Wick. Have looked all over station but no sign............ Perplexed in Wick At the time I thought she meant to say "Winwick", but stumbled- try pronouncing that properly when you've never seen the word before. I really didn't understand the "spotting" bit, it's like the program makers seem to think spotters turn up at a location and are surprised when something out of the ordinary turns up. And as for doing so live, it was a bit "look at what you've missed...", like filming empty sky at an Airshow because there was a plane there a moment ago. Do these program makers really expect trains to perform to order...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted July 16, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 16, 2016 ".... and next week on BBC4, Pokémon Spotting Live. Watch people randomly wave their phones around, imagining they are seeing things...." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615 Area locally known as 'Box Mines'. Probably gricers looking for the Western Region's Strategic Reserve? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Do these program makers really expect trains to perform to order...? Even those of us who work the things don't expect that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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