BR(S) Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 http://www.channel4.com/programmes/paul-mertons-secret-stations Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Yeah, I just seen a trailer for this and it looks interesting. Apparently the show is specifically about the UK's request stops and is three episodes long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR(S) Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Anyone interested in this programme might also enjoy this book: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Tiny_Stations.html?id=trz1ngEACAAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y&hl=en Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2016 C4 Sunday 1st May. I have also posted in the Media Section in Books but I don't know how many people visit that part of the Forum. There I mention a Book I have just read! It covers the same sort of subject. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium QWILPEN Posted April 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2016 http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/paul-mertons-secret-stations Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Road Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Sky + ed from Coventry to Ayr ! Handy thing that app . Cheers for the heads up . Mike b Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2016 http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/paul-mertons-secret-stations Thanks for that. He actually meets Dixe Wills who's book I read (excellent as stated). Thanks for that link Qwilpen. I'm too old to understand that this sort of info is so easily available. I read the Radio Times that's how I knew about it! Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2016 Anyone interested in this programme might also enjoy this book: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Tiny_Stations.html?id=trz1ngEACAAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y&hl=en Reviewed here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/110678-tiny-stations-by-dixe-wills/?p=2287666 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Depot Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 Looks interesting, will have to watch out for to download it. salud Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rembrow Posted April 28, 2016 Share Posted April 28, 2016 According to Ch4 website, if your interested in this programme 'you may also like - The Island with Bear Grylls and 24 hours in Police Custody'. Strange opinion Ch 4 has of railway enthusiasts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted April 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2016 According to Ch4 website, if your interested in this programme 'you may also like - The Island with Bear Grylls and 24 hours in Police Custody'. Strange opinion Ch 4 has of railway enthusiasts. A bit like most of eBay's suggestions on what else you would like to buy! My suggestion is to put the people who make such suggestions in Custody on an Island with a Bear! Just leave out the police and Mr Grylls! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Road Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Thanks for that. He actually meets Dixe Wills who's book I read (excellent as stated). Thanks for that link Qwilpen. I'm too old to understand that this sort of info is so easily available. I read the Radio Times that's how I knew about it! Phil Phil , The sky + on my mobile app is a handy thing when away wearing out the motorway network during the week . It allows me to bypass my wife and record what I want without getting written permission after checking what crime prog is being recorded that night . Radio Times - not seen once of those for years . Nice to hear it is still going . Mike b Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 29, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2016 Radio Times. Something for an old geezer to sit and look through as he doesn't have to race around any more and hasn't got an I Phone thingy. Actually it was SWMBO that decided to start getting it. ATB Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted April 29, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 29, 2016 Radio Times. Something for an old geezer to sit and look through as he doesn't have to race around any more and hasn't got an I Phone thingy. Actually it was SWMBO that decided to start getting it. ATB Phil I remember when you had to buy both the Radio Times and TV Times to get all the programme info. We had them delivered with the newspaper and my Whizzer & Chips. Incredible to think there will be plenty reading this that won't know what I'm talking about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2016 We only ever got the RT & TVT at Christmas - double issues - to see what films were on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted April 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2016 Our kids can't believe we had to get up to change channel and that was with a dial rather than buttons... And BBC used to highlight, under the spinning globe, that the channel could be watched in colour. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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62613 Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Our kids can't believe we had to get up to change channel and that was with a dial rather than buttons... And BBC used to highlight, under the spinning globe, that the channel could be watched in colour. 'For those with black & white, Liverpool are the team in red' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Phil Bullock Posted April 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 29, 2016 'Pot Black' in colour for the first time, bliss! Ah happy days! Round to my girlfriends house - even when she jilted me periodically, used to sit and watch with her Mum - at the Grocers in Ombersley as they had a colour telly - essential for snooker sessions Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted April 30, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 30, 2016 I think everyone who looks at the page is assumed to want to spend 24 Hours with Bear Grylls (I think thats what it said...) As for the programme, I've put it on to record in case I've dozed off by 8pm of a Sunday evening, although I'm a bit perturbed by the photo of Paul Merton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted May 1, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 1, 2016 It was okay as a travel / exploration program, but only just. The railway links seemed tenuous at times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold wombatofludham Posted May 2, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2016 It was okay as a travel / exploration program, but only just. The railway links seemed tenuous at times. It's a programme aimed at Joe and Joanna Normal who probably never go anywhere near a railway station, let alone actually flag a train down like a cab, and was part of what Channel 4's sponsors term "Escapism". It was always going to be lightweight feel good froth, just like the other "Escapism" series Alberto Balsam have sponsored, Penelope Keith's "Hidden Villages" and Timothy and Prunella crash canal boats into various bits of the UK. Pleasant zone-out telly about how wonderful the UK looks from nice empty trains, produced so as not to remind viewers it's back to work on the 08.10 Thameslink sardine special tomorrow. For what it's worth I quite enjoyed it even if it did flit around the UK like a giant fairy on a gob of lard. There again, I actually quite like looking at Class 153s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
two tone green Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 They got the county wrong for Ferryside. It's in Carmarthenshire, not Pembrokeshire as Paul said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Gave it ten minutes and it was off. Zip re railways, yet another look what they do there geography programme he might as well been on a bus !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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