Nobby (John) Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Anyone watching Endeavour tonight? Plenty of railway locations, obviously a heritage line but I can’t recognise it. Cheers 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeps Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Thought it was mid Hants. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeps Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Bet the murderer turns out to be the weird train spotter 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil R Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Believe it's Ropley on Watercress line. Regards Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froxfield2012 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Definitely Ropley but the derelict station doesn't look like MHR. Possibly Quainton Road? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Huw Griffiths Posted February 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 18, 2018 Definitely Ropley but the derelict station doesn't look like MHR. Possibly Quainton Road? I haven't seen Endeavour - or Morse - for a number of years. However, the use of Quainton Road for filming these programmes sounds credible - especially in view of where the former Oxford Rewley Road station building ended up. Huw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 18, 2018 Headlight American horn!!!!!! and what looked like a derelict 25 And since when did Hornby westerns have a stupid headlight not that you buy it in the 60s PS anyone want to buy a TV that has some serious boot damage! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby (John) Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share Posted February 18, 2018 Bet the murderer turns out to be the weird train spotter Yes it was and he has the same bloody surname as me,!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeps Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Yup, the weird train spotter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
exet1095 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Ropley and Quainton Road. Also looked like the derelict stock up at Butts Junction. Spotted a Maunsell pull-push driving trailer conversion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Buttell Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 (edited) Several musical gaffes The radio announced the assassination of Robert Kennedy but the soundtrack had “Can’t you hear me knocking” by the Stones, which was recorded a couple of years after that, as was the U Roy version of “Stop that Train”. Edited February 18, 2018 by Mike Buttell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 18, 2018 What's with the level crossing with black and white scaffolding poles and an American bell!!!! His layout is far too modern too and just to really P me off why does the porter have a drivers bag??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevelewis Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Headlight American horn!!!!!! and what looked like a derelict 25 And since when did Hornby westerns have a stupid headlight not that you buy it in the 60s PS anyone want to buy a TV that has some serious boot damage! Pretty typical of todays dramas which require railway footage both model and full size! ' And of course there was a comment from a police woman to the effect of ' why do men play trains' etc when she was in the Railway Room ,not sure of the exact words I was watching Homeland Ep1 ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 I thought it was rather good, and rather clever, and with more than one murderer. Did anyone else notice a few Red Herrings rotting away with the other wagons up the old Butts Junction spur (I aplogise...) So, railway stuff! Judging by the final scene with the announcement of Bobby Kennedy's death, the story took place prior to June 1968, so steam wasn't quite out of the question, but on the Western or that part of the Midland? Hmm... still, nice to see BR Standards in a correct period drama, rather than used for earlier periods. The 33 was a nice choice, and there were some very good breaks between scenes, particularly between the MHR and BRC. The Hornby Western... didn't that come in 1976/7/8? Still, some things never change: telly showing trainspotters as very weird and strange people, except this time drawing those who avoid that label normally into the 'very weird' fray. Still, liked the irony of a 'trainspotter' being hit by a train, a blue box on wheels at that. Anyway, the MHR should be sued by anyone who cares: Morse didn't 'ave a PTS certificate or an 'igh Vis on! Terrible, Habsolutely terrible. J. Obsworth, Four Marks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 What's with the level crossing with black and white scaffolding poles and an American bell!!!! His layout is far too modern too and just to really P me off why does the porter have a drivers bag??? The bell was a goof, but the crossing (on Wanderer's curve if I remember correctly?) is as it actually appears on the MHR. The layout has far too many modern model railway products, but did anyone make notes on the loco smokebox number plates on the weird trainspotter's wall? I think I saw one beginning '306..' and for some reason thinking it came off an S15, but I doubt it somehow. Another one came off a 'dubdee' I think, given it seemed to begin with '90...'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 I thought it was rather good, and rather clever, and with more than one murderer. Did anyone else notice a few Red Herrings rotting away with the other wagons up the old Butts Junction spur (I aplogise...) So, railway stuff! Judging by the final scene with the announcement of Bobby Kennedy's death, the story took place prior to June 1968, so steam wasn't quite out of the question, Bulleid Pacifics would have been though ;-) In the other direction, my father noticed that at least one vehicle was 'F' reg (1 Aug 1968 onwards). It is a shame though that they had to use a SR station to film most of the scenes given that the victim was travelling from Birmingham to Oxford. Maybe one day there will be a heritage railway in Oxfordshire with a GWR/WR style station.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 18, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 18, 2018 The bell was a goof, but the crossing (on Wanderer's curve if I remember correctly?) is as it actually appears on the MHR. The layout has far too many modern model railway products, but did anyone make notes on the loco smokebox number plates on the weird trainspotter's wall? I think I saw one beginning '306..' and for some reason thinking it came off an S15, but I doubt it somehow. Another one came off a 'dubdee' I think, given it seemed to begin with '90...'. Maybe the numberplate was off an LNER Pacific but they turned it upside down so he wasn't seen a too rich! They seemed a bit obsessed with corporate identity which seemed a bit early for a station in a backwater that was about to close Also what was going on with that van ,looked like a five year old had done the graphics But still wasn't actually a bad program Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Better than some railway sequences I've seen on't ellybox at any rate! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted February 19, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2018 Most are never good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 To be honest, had it been set somewhere on the Southern, particularly the Western Division, then those sequences would have been almost accurate if you rolled the date back until you get before July 1967. Another note: the brief shot of the haulage contractors yard also appears to have been shot at Quainton Road. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetmorgan Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 If you listen carefully to the stations mentioned by the trainspotter/railway enthusiast even St Trinian's Great Train Robbery got a link with the station names of Hammingwell Halt & Pudham 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 I usually enjoy Endeavour, especially as it is set in my home town, but last night's railway scenes were, without exception, dreadful; All the points made above, plus a renumbered Class 33 with headlight, in 1968, and a 'Parliamentary' train which didn't appear in the public timetable, somewhat defeating the point. And, of course the railway enthusiast had to be a weirdo who turned out to be a murderer (although not the only killer in the episode - Oxford is a dangerous place !). Still, at least the City of Oxford Motor Services bus looked good (was it accurate for 1968 - any bus experts on here ?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Bulleid Pacifics would have been though ;-) In the other direction, my father noticed that at least one vehicle was 'F' reg (1 Aug 1968 onwards). It is a shame though that they had to use a SR station to film most of the scenes given that the victim was travelling from Birmingham to Oxford. Maybe one day there will be a heritage railway in Oxfordshire with a GWR/WR style station.... F Plates were August 67 on IIRC. I remember Es being quite rare because E only ran January-July 67 to allow the changeover from calendar years to manufacturers' model years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 The railway sequences weren't the best, but better than some I have seen/heard about at any rate. Still think it showed steam hanging on a tad too long around Oxford though... but I like the MHR (Have volunteered there in the past!) and it was nice to see it on the 'box. Still think Medstead would've been a better choice than Ropley, but then again it doesn't have the all-important Station Master's house attached, and Arlesford is surrounded by too much modernity. Speaking of which, some neat blurring out the very modern footbridge at Quainton Road! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
locoholic Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 It was the first episode of Endeavour I've seen for ages, and I thought the plot and the railway scenes were awful. Midsomer Murders is more believable! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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