WIMorrison Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 (edited) Might be worth watching of you havent seen it before, and if you have you may want to watch it again https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9vhy Edited September 6, 2018 by WIMorrison 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 Might be worth watching of you havent seen it before, and if you have you may want to watch it again https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q9vhy You missed out the (Train), but its a regular filler on BBC Four. We're also about due for another showing of "Ian Hislop Goes Off The Rails" too.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Brasher Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 (edited) It is on BBC4 tonight at 19:00 (Sunday 9 September). I am going watch it again because I am in it. They filmed Hornby 0 gauge at the Wessex Group of the Hornby Railway Collectors Association meeting several years ago. I am in the background wearing a pink shirt. Edited September 10, 2018 by Robin Brasher Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium StevieD71 Posted September 9, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2018 I watched it again earlier in the week on YouTube. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted September 9, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2018 wearing a red pullover and a pink shirt. Are you related to Michael Portillo? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 It was a white shirt before he did the washing... Jason Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamysandy Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Many of the B R prototype shots were filmed in Scotland.The double headed black 5 (44997) and A4 (60009)was Scottish Grand Tour No1 on 25 March 1967 which I was on board Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted September 9, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2018 Nice picture of an NBR J36 too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Thanks for the heads-up on this, seen it before but well worth another look. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Brasher Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Are you related to Michael Portillo? No but I wish I had his job. Looking at the programme I was not wearing a pullover but I was wearing my pink shirt. I thought that the programme was very well presented. Chris Littledale from the Brighton Toy Museum played a prominent role. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Its a good programme about Model Railways, explanatory and not condescending. The thing of biggest "historical interest" was the Thomas segment, using real model locos on real model track, so unlike the CGI rubbish served up in later expansions of the franchise! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted September 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2018 (edited) I didn't bother re-watching the programme yet again (maybe next time, as it seems to come round fairly regularly), but I greatly enjoyed the subsequent (also repeated) celebration of my favourite cross-country trunk road. John Edited September 10, 2018 by Dunsignalling Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted September 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 10, 2018 Apparently (in connection with a recent theme night on AI), they created a bot to design an evenings TV schedule for the typical BBC4 viewer, based on demographic information, ratings from previous shows etc. It came up with an entire evening of Railway-related programming! So they tweaked it. It then came up with an entire evening of Ships and Aircraft. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Its a good programme about Model Railways, explanatory and not condescending. The thing of biggest "historical interest" was the Thomas segment, using real model locos on real model track, so unlike the CGI rubbish served up in later expansions of the franchise! I believe the original series stock were built on marklin gauge 1 loco and stock chassis, and then filmed operating. The eyes of the faces were radio controlled. At least, like the original books, the stories take place in a plausible railway setting. Unlike the cgi ones obviously animated by people with no knowledge of railways at all. Watched a few of these with my grand daughter, who otherwise likes trains but didn't take to the new ones. I'll have to try her younger brother on the earlier ones.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rue_d_etropal Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 I believe the original series stock were built on marklin gauge 1 loco and stock chassis, and then filmed operating. The eyes of the faces were radio controlled. At least, like the original books, the stories take place in a plausible railway setting. Unlike the cgi ones obviously animated by people with no knowledge of railways at all. Watched a few of these with my grand daughter, who otherwise likes trains but didn't take to the new ones. I'll have to try her younger brother on the earlier ones.... Correct there. The coach and wagons were from Tenmille kits(must have made them a nice tidy sum), ie 10mm/ft. Loco chassis were certainly Marklin(1/32 scale), with assume scratchbuilt bodies. Didn't help the mix up that Gauge One has with two scales now using the term. Also allowed the likes of Bachmann to stretch their G gauge down to very near 10mm/ft(1/29). More confusion for those who don't understand the difference between scale and gauge. Some of the road vehicles looked like they were based on 1/35th scale military kits(Opel Blitz = Bedford?). It all nicely started about the time my children were the right age. although I did grow up on a diet of original Thomas books. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 Apparently (in connection with a recent theme night on AI), they created a bot to design an evenings TV schedule for the typical BBC4 viewer, based on demographic information, ratings from previous shows etc. It came up with an entire evening of Railway-related programming! So they tweaked it. It then came up with an entire evening of Ships and Aircraft. AI TV was on BBC Four last week. In the programme When AI Met the Archive there were four sequences of archive clips put together by the AI, using different techniques. The time breakdowns were as follows: Sequence 1 - using image recognition to link clips together Total running time 11:33 Running time about trains* 0:27 (4%) Running time about ships 1:06 (9.5%) Sequence 2 - using keyword matching based on subtitles to link clips together Total running time 11:05 Running time about trains 0:32 (4.8%) Running time about ships 1:24 (12.6%) Sequence 3 - using "dynamism" ratings of scenes to link clips together Total running time 11:35 Running time about trains* 0:18 (2.5%) Running time about ships 1:17 (11%) Sequence 4 - using a combination of the above, plus "machine learning" Total running time 11:34 Running time about trains* 1:03 (9%) Running time about ships 0:57 (8.2%) Across the four sequences, the running time was 45:47, with 2:20 (5%) about trains and 4:44 (9.2%) about ships. The remaining 75.8% covered politics; arts and culture; history and archaeology; and other forms of transport including buses, motorcycles and bicycles - but not aviation. The AI-selected programmes that followed it were: Planet Ping Pong from 2007 The Age of Excess: When Britain Went Too Far, also from 2007, and The Rebel Physician: Nicholas Culpeper's Fight for Medical Freedom from 2016 Bottom line: a nice story but can safely be filed under "fake news" IMO. One thing I would say is that the AI seemed to pick its clips from a very small number of the supposedly 250,000 BBC Four programmes it had available to choose from. The Joy of (Train) Sets featured in three out of the four sequences, and The Last Days of the Liners featured in all four. * Including model railways. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted December 10, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 10, 2023 This is on again at the insomniac friendly time of 0055 on Friday (15th) on BBC4. Set your videos. Adrian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 20 minutes ago, figworthy said: This is on again at the insomniac friendly time of 0055 on Friday (15th) on BBC4. Set your videos. Adrian Also on at 7PM Thursday and then probably on the iPlayer for a while. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbcfour/20231214 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinRS Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 (edited) On 05/09/2018 at 21:51, WIMorrison said: Might be worth watching of you havent seen it before, and if you have you may want to watch it again And again. As StevieD71 mentions above you can find it on Youtube. It's split into four parts, the first one being The second episode is Here is episode three And the final episode is here. Edited December 12, 2023 by MartinRS typo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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