steve1 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 I'm sure I remember a railway modeller being the murderer in an episode of Morse. Or am I confusing it with some other show? steve 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ52 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 I think it was Frost. Terry 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 53 minutes ago, TJ52 said: I think it was Frost. Terry Another possibility is the Endeavour episode "Passenger" from 2018 https://morseandlewisandendeavour.com/2018/02/21/endeavour-passenger-s5e3-review-music-locations-literary-references-etc/ 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Kirkham Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 6 minutes ago, Andy Kirkham said: Another possibility is the Endeavour episode "Passenger" from 2018 https://morseandlewisandendeavour.com/2018/02/21/endeavour-passenger-s5e3-review-music-locations-literary-references-etc/ Or following a link from the above review, possibly this (the only reference to trains in this text is "Like the trains that Victor Preece played with, the story needed a quicker tempo to help unsettle the viewer.") https://morseandlewisandendeavour.com/2015/03/17/sins-of-the-father/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
90164 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 'Hinterland', the 'Celtic noir' series set around Aberystwyth, had an episode in which the villain had a model of one of the stations on the line. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adrianmc Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 4, 2020 (edited) Of course there is the Two Ronnies sketch - The Little Trains of Wales - featuring Dick Wyatt's Dovey Valley Railway. A layout I was lucky to operate several times in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Edited June 5, 2020 by adrianmc 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Wasn’t there a London Underground layout on an episode of Sherlock? It was also representing a model railway rather than a special effect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 The train in The Wind In The Willows looks a bit familiar. Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 1 hour ago, 009 micro modeller said: Wasn’t there a London Underground layout on an episode of Sherlock? It was also representing a model railway rather than a special effect. I deduce, by studying the evidence of this post on the previous page of this very thread, that yes, there was - elementary my dear Watson. Although it would have been nice for you to have READ the first page to see if anyone had mentioned it? - this time I've used proper invisible ink. Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 26 minutes ago, jonhall said: I deduce, by studying the evidence of this post on the previous page of this very thread, that yes, there was - elementary my dear Watson. Although it would have been nice for you to have READ the first page to see if anyone had mentioned it? - this time I've used proper invisible ink. Jon Oh no, missed that one. I still can’t remember what episode it was though. It involved a lot of detail about real and fictional Tube history. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 10 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said: Oh no, missed that one. I still can’t remember what episode it was though. It involved a lot of detail about real and fictional Tube history. I learnt that Baker Street tube station had yellow doors, because it was a lemon entry. Mike. Hat, co,, etc. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted June 5, 2020 Author Share Posted June 5, 2020 12 hours ago, 009 micro modeller said: Oh no, missed that one. I still can’t remember what episode it was though. It involved a lot of detail about real and fictional Tube history. And that Mark Gattiss had watched "V for Vendetta" before writing his script... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
43110andyb Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 22 hours ago, steve1 said: I'm sure I remember a railway modeller being the murderer in an episode of Morse. Or am I confusing it with some other show? steve In the Morse episode ‘Sins of the fathers’ the character Victor Preece has a model railway. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 2mmMark Posted June 5, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 5, 2020 There were a number of comedy films in the 1950s & 60s where the crooks used a model railway to plan their caper. "Rotten To The Core" is certainly one of them. There are others but I can't recall them right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Reichert Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 The opening alpine station scene from "The Lady Vanishes" looks like a model to me. (Hitchcock 1938) Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzine Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 10 minutes ago, Andy Reichert said: The opening alpine station scene from "The Lady Vanishes" looks like a model to me. (Hitchcock 1938) Andy You're absolutely right Andy and the model theme continues further on I think with some, possibly Basset-Lowke, O gauge items. Kind regards Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 4 hours ago, 2mmMark said: There were a number of comedy films in the 1950s & 60s where the crooks used a model railway to plan their caper. "Rotten To The Core" is certainly one of them. There are others but I can't recall them right now. The large model in Goldfinger seems to have trains on it. It even has little model cars as one of the gangsters is seen playing with them. Jason 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flubrush Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 (edited) "The excellent 80's BBC tv series "Edge of Darkness" about nuclear skulduggery features of course the home-made class 31; a bit of full-size kitbashing with a wooden body built over three diesel shunters at the Middleton Railway because apparently BR wouldn't co-operate. But the scenes in the secret underground nuclear reactor in the mountains were done using miniatures, and rear-projection for a view through the window of an underground office. " Sorry to come back to this a bit late but I was otherwise detained by thhe NHS for a month or two. :-) But to pick up on a point in the first post in the thread - it wasn't rear projection in the underground office, but front axial projection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_projection_effect This gives better quality and requires a lot less set space that is required by back projection equipment. The projected material was shot on 35mm on a Mitchell camera and projected on a projector with a register pin gate to give stability. It all worked well considering we were advised that it was normally only attempted on a film stage, and not in a slate mine in North Wales. :-) Sorry for the bit of drift. :-) Jim. Edited June 5, 2020 by flubrush 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 6, 2020 Sort of model related , the animated nuclear holocaust film when the wind blows featured a triang Hornby 37 getting blown off a bridge I think and seem to remember some Hornby sierras Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted June 6, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 6, 2020 Hinterland (BBC/S4C) had a series based around the model railway in Borth station: http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2014/borth-railway-museum/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 2 hours ago, russ p said: Sort of model related , the animated nuclear holocaust film when the wind blows featured a triang Hornby 37 getting blown off a bridge I think and seem to remember some Hornby sierras Best thing to do with them. steve 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach james Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Here is one: https://themodelrailwaydotshow.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/cue-the-train/ James 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted June 17, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2020 The lead character in the cult Australian film Malcolm has a model tramway system in his house. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Lantavian said: Just watched it. Yup, looked like an S scale on 16.5mm track model of New Zealand railways (which are 3'6" gauge). V nice. Unfortunately, I don't think the episode, enjoyable as it was, did the hobby any good. The victim, a miserable git, owned the model railway shop: he was 60 years old, racist and homophobic. One other main character was his employee: a man in his 20s who lived with his overbearing mother, and was very angry because he couldn't get a girlfriend. Sadly, such stereotypes about the hobby are still prevalent in the mass media, despite the efforts of programmes like TGMRC. steve Edited June 17, 2020 by steve1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 17, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2020 36 minutes ago, steve1 said: Sadly, such stereotypes about the hobby are still prevalent in the mass media, despite the efforts of programmes like TGMRC. steve I'm assuming that was tongue firmly in cheek Steve?!! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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