5050 Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) A couple of items to mention. Saturday saw the Ealing film 'Barnacle Bill' with Alec Guiness buying a run down seaside pier - complete with miniature steam train running along it. And then on Sunday, John Betjeman taking a green DMU (Cravens?) from Kings Lynn to Hunstanton. An enjoyable B&W shortie with the last shots showing the pier at Hunstanton - which was the one used in the Alec Guiness film! Before this I didn't know Hunstanton (Hunston to locals) even had a pier! It fell down c.1970 I think. Not surprising looking at the state of it in the film. The Sunday evening, Mcdonald and Dodds with the Box Hill layout mentioned in a separate thread. All in all quite an exciting weekend. It doesn't take much these days....................... Edited March 8, 2021 by 5050 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/162944-mcdonald-dodds/ Link to the seperate thread about the bespoke McDonald and Dodds layout. It was quite an impressive layout, more so that something was built specially for the episode rather than just having a generic Hornby/Bachmann shop-type demo layout used. The builder seems to have been a railway modeller, even incorporating the Bus On A Bridge cliché 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal Digger Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Did anyone else try Snowpiercer either the film or the TV series? We tried the TV series for about 2 or 3 episodes until a distasteful scene. Features a 1000 car train endlessly (non-stop for 3 years?) travelling a frozen world. In the episodes that we watched, they managed to avoid problems like re-fuelling (Nuclear power?) or keeping the track clear of snow. Suspect more CGI than models. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I watched the Snowpiercer movie. Standard wet thursday evening garbage with a fairly disappointing ending. I tend not to watch TV series at the best of times and seeing the movie first has mad sure I'll never watch the series. Graeme Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Two model railway incidents to report today. Yesterday morning on Talking Pictures was shown 'Runaway Railway' a 1965 B&W childrens film about a mail train robbery. Filmed on the Longmor Military Railway it starred Ronnie Barker along with other 'stars' of the period including Jon Pertwee and Graham Stark. Plot wise it was the usual stuff, ludicrous train chases, OTT characters etc. - but it did feature a model railway/train set where the 'plotters' used some Triang (standard track, West Country (I think) loco only, Jinty and bogie parcel van) to plan the robbery. The main film loco was an Austerity saddle tank with some additional fittings by the producers including some outside 'cylinders' at a weird angle - and no connecting rods! A strange chimney extension and something on top of the dome - and some very heavy lining and large 'Matilda' nameplates. The 'mail van' was an ordinary box van - with an end door and ladder - and a 'mail pickup apparatus'! Best part was seeing the Austerity 2-10-0 'Gordon' in full flight as the express engine. Available on YouTube I believe. This morning i caught a few early minutes of 'The Red Baron' which featured some 'posh' WW1 German pilots around a breakfast table with a 3-rail O Gauge train set delivering boiled eggs in hopper wagons. TBH, to me, the loco looked to modern but I'm probably quite wrong! BTW, don't confuse 'Runaway Railway' with 'Runaway Train' - there is no comparison whatsoever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 8 hours ago, 5050 said: Two model railway incidents to report today. Yesterday morning on Talking Pictures was shown 'Runaway Railway' a 1965 B&W childrens film about a mail train robbery. Filmed on the Longmor Military Railway it starred Ronnie Barker along with other 'stars' of the period including Jon Pertwee and Graham Stark. Plot wise it was the usual stuff, ludicrous train chases, OTT characters etc. - but it did feature a model railway/train set where the 'plotters' used some Triang (standard track, West Country (I think) loco only, Jinty and bogie parcel van) to plan the robbery. The main film loco was an Austerity saddle tank with some additional fittings by the producers including some outside 'cylinders' at a weird angle - and no connecting rods! A strange chimney extension and something on top of the dome - and some very heavy lining and large 'Matilda' nameplates. The 'mail van' was an ordinary box van - with an end door and ladder - and a 'mail pickup apparatus'! Best part was seeing the Austerity 2-10-0 'Gordon' in full flight as the express engine. Available on YouTube I believe. This morning i caught a few early minutes of 'The Red Baron' which featured some 'posh' WW1 German pilots around a breakfast table with a 3-rail O Gauge train set delivering boiled eggs in hopper wagons. TBH, to me, the loco looked to modern but I'm probably quite wrong! BTW, don't confuse 'Runaway Railway' with 'Runaway Train' - there is no comparison whatsoever. I have fond memories of "Runaway Railway", when Channel 4 did a railway-themed series of progs when I was little ('Going Loco') I caught it then as a little kid- it got taped over, but we had the first five minutes on an old VCR for many years. Had a soft-spot for the ludicrously-modified "Matilda" ever since, and have been toying with modifying my old Hornby Austerity into it. Film-wise, it's pretty much a dry-run for the later St.Trinians isn't it, with a train chase on the LMR with multiple trains in the same block section 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovex Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 I'll just leave this here 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 New song from RagnBone man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Don't rate the song much but the modelling is pretty reasonable. steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 My wife said the same thing and she has his previous album. Its more r n b/ blues, Def Leppard it ain't. I actually prefer this one to his other stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canal Digger Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 From an email sent to me dated 10 Mar, not much notice!: Hello. The Museum of Bath at Work has a model railway layout that was made by ITV for an episode of the series McDonald and Dodds. It’s a (not very accurate) representation of Bath, including Box tunnel. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=185116509777089 https://www.bath-at-work.org.uk/all-aboard-train-set-prop-from-mcdonald-and-dodds-itv-show-donated-to-museum/ Unfortunately the museum no longer has room to display it and they are keen to give it away to a good home. It needs to be moved by the end of next week if anyone is interested in all or part of it. If anyone is interested or needs more information please contact the Museum director Stuart Burroughs mobaw@hotmail.com Mary Kelly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 One from last weekend, though an oldy. Inspired by them getting into the new series of "Wednesday", we had the kids watch the 1990's version of the "Adams Family". Lovely bit of railroad modelling, and a nicely dramatic crash from Gomez ;) Oddly enough, looking at some clips from the black and white series, it seems to be the same crash every time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 7 hours ago, Ben B said: One from last weekend, though an oldy. Inspired by them getting into the new series of "Wednesday", we had the kids watch the 1990's version of the "Adams Family". Lovely bit of railroad modelling, and a nicely dramatic crash from Gomez ;) Oddly enough, looking at some clips from the black and white series, it seems to be the same crash every time? Discussed right at the start of this Thread. It was the same crash every time. 😉 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted January 27, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2023 The 1960s BBC Rupert Davies 'Maigret' series has an episode entitled 'Unscheduled Departure' in which a railway modeller claims that his wife is trying to kill him, which is obviously ridiculous as no railway modeller's wife has ever wanted to arrgh <thud>. 3 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 Here's one I've just remembered. Or rather, two. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted February 24, 2023 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2023 12 minutes ago, papagolfjuliet said: Here's one I've just remembered. Or rather, two. Looks like Gerry Anderson may have been "inspired by" Thunderbolt too. Don't tell SK or he'll wheel out the Caley single again with some avocados on bolster wagons. 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, AY Mod said: Looks like Gerry Anderson may have been "inspired by" Thunderbolt too. Don't tell SK or he'll wheel out the Caley single again with some avocados on bolster wagons. "Inspired by something for which we don't hold the licence." Edited February 24, 2023 by papagolfjuliet 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 4 hours ago, AY Mod said: Looks like Gerry Anderson may have been "inspired by" Thunderbolt too. Don't tell SK or he'll wheel out the Caley single again with some avocados on bolster wagons. Make a change from lemons! Mike. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 I'm somewhat curious as to how Lady Penelope's Rolls managed to reverse up that incline in a foot of scale snow. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 44 minutes ago, papagolfjuliet said: I'm somewhat curious as to how Lady Penelope's Rolls managed to reverse up that incline in a foot of scale snow. British made rear wheel drive car! Not one of the modern fwd eurobox/asiabox/whateverbox rubbish things...... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted February 24, 2023 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 hour ago, papagolfjuliet said: I'm somewhat curious as to how Lady Penelope's Rolls managed to reverse up that incline in a foot of scale snow. 6WD! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 hour ago, papagolfjuliet said: I'm somewhat curious as to how Lady Penelope's Rolls managed to reverse up that incline in a foot of scale snow. 37 minutes ago, stewartingram said: British made rear wheel drive car! Not one of the modern fwd eurobox/asiabox/whateverbox rubbish things...... Come on, it's British made, it will have towed up by a tractor after it broke down. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 57 minutes ago, stewartingram said: British made rear wheel drive car! Not one of the modern fwd eurobox/asiabox/whateverbox rubbish things...... Fairly sure that neither my dad's Scimitar nor my granddad's Gilbern Invader Mk.III could have managed that hill. Forwards. In a drought. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 3 hours ago, papagolfjuliet said: I'm somewhat curious as to how Lady Penelope's Rolls managed to reverse up that incline in a foot of scale snow. Parker, take me up backwards. Yes my lady. Mike. 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted February 24, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 24, 2023 3 hours ago, papagolfjuliet said: I'm somewhat curious as to how Lady Penelope's Rolls managed to reverse up that incline in a foot of scale snow. And not grounded on that sharp angle at the top… Cheers Darius 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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