darren01 Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 I see on discovery channel a new series about Railways with Dan Cruickshank . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 When is it on ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newport_rod Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Wednesday 5th May at 9pm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 National Geographic btw http://natgeotv.com/uk/great-railway-adventures/videos/great-railway-adventures Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_t Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 National Geographic btw  http://natgeotv.com/...lway-adventures Hope it makes it to the beeb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium steam-driven boy Posted April 23, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2010 Hi, I'd just managed to scrape together an upgrade to include Discovery, couldn't believe my timing and luck... My toy train funding precludes notching it up further Dan is an excellent enthusiastic presenter for general programming in my view, but I still love his "...Penguins being the staple diet of Polar Bears..." whenever they re-show that one Regards, Gerry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennyboy Posted April 24, 2010 Share Posted April 24, 2010 Hope it makes it to the beeb It won't. It might make it's way to Five or Quest though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 5, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 5, 2010 anyone spot the slightly dodgy advert for the show in the papers today, photoshopped black 5 with (what i think are) german smoke deflectors fitted, very strange!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Might be a dodgy photoshop job, Jim, but I'm rather liking the idea of it! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 It's going to be in HD too which is nice. It's on National Geographic Channel - not Discovery which is something completly different;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the fuzzler Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 anyone spot the slightly dodgy advert for the show in the papers today, photoshopped black 5 with (what i think are) german smoke deflectors fitted, very strange!! Oh yes, saw that. Looked very continental, but was pleased (and suprised) to see a railway related programme being advertised. Makes a change from show off ice road bloody truckers and those (once interesting but now tedious) crabbers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Glum Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Hello Gents, Unfortunately havn't found time to watch much of it yet, but was somewhat discombobulated by a tremendous howler about 5 minutes in. While standing by the 43xx in ROD khaki livery, he talked about its use in France, including "pulling forty (40) carriages" . . . "full of stores and supplies" etc. Call me old-fashioned, but if the program can't properly distinguish between something so fundamental as a wagon and a carriage, then it's not very encouraging. Or did they load munitions into French Railway 4 wheel carriages? Maybe I'm the plonker. Cheers, Tony PS I'm now going to watch out for calling a locomotive "a train" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Hello Gents, Unfortunately havn't found time to watch much of it yet, but was somewhat discombobulated by a tremendous howler about 5 minutes in. While standing by the 43xx in ROD khaki livery, he talked about its use in France, including "pulling forty (40) carriages" . . . "full of stores and supplies" etc. Call me old-fashioned, but if the program can't properly distinguish between something so fundamental as a wagon and a carriage, then it's not very encouraging. Or did they load munitions into French Railway 4 wheel carriages? Maybe I'm the plonker. Cheers, Tony PS I'm now going to watch out for calling a locomotive "a train" Heard that one about the forty carriages. I thought "crikey that some loco" I have no doubt he meant wagons. I enjoyed the program. In any case any program on railways is to be welcomed. Lets have more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Call me old-fashioned, but if the program can't properly distinguish between something so fundamental as a wagon and a carriage, then it's not very encouraging. Or did they load munitions into French Railway 4 wheel carriages? Maybe I'm the plonker. I'm now going to watch out for calling a locomotive "a train" Ah the problems of some one making a tele programme about railways, and not being a serious railway enthusiast. Being an mechanical engineer I know the problem, to an engineer it's a gear, to a normal pleb it's a cog --ergh!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigwelsh Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Has he found anything phallic yet? It was his buzzword for 80 wonders of the world.. I do like Dan Crushanks rather overenthusiastic approach to history . Completely the opposite way of presenting compared to the recent Michael Portillo series though no doubt a few similar clangers will show up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Oh yes, saw that. Looked very continental, but was pleased (and suprised) to see a railway related programme being advertised. Makes a change from show off ice road bloody truckers and those (once interesting but now tedious) crabbers. Ice Pilots currently on Quest is pretty good. Same idea as ice road truckers only with DC-3s , C46s, and a DC-4 so much better and seems to be plenty of flying material. There are thirteen of them so it may go on a bit though crossing the Atlantic in winter with Canadair CL-215 waterbombers looks promising. I found Cruickshank's programme a bit disappointing though still worth watching despite the 40 carriages howler (and I don't think the racks in Down Street he thought were the wartime telephone exchange were any such thing) . Pretty good explanation of the Foreway operation in WW-1 and the Dunkirk railway operation but overall I found it a bit shallow and I don't think the underground HQ of the Railway Executive is really the most interesting aspect of railway operations in WW2. I found the programme about railways in WW2 in Pete Waterman's series a lot more engaging. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26power Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Presumably this was what was being trailed on Five last night? Â Great Railway Adventures. Â Couldn't find anything on the Five website but found in a TV listings. Â First one, I assume, Tuesday 10th at 20.00. Â Naturally that conflicts with MRC meeting! Cheers, 26power Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevpeo Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Cheers 26power. I've set my SKY for it. Says it's 1 of 3. thanks again, kev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 I watched some of this last night and enjoyed it. Yes there is the usual nonsense in the commentary, but the film clips are worth watching and I learned some things. According to Demand five it is available to watch on the computer, so I will try to catch the rest on here when I get fed up with you lot!!! Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Watched it last night on 5. Pleanty of clips of RH&DR and FR aalong with the Khaki GWR 0-6-0. Just a shame that he seemed to wander off at a tangent slightly thoughout the prog. The other downside is that of splitting it into chunks so that adverts can be placed in the gaps - broke up the continuity I think? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 It didn't get a very good write up in the review I read - "presumably not enough stories to fill an hour", "some segments are merely flisy links to trains" and "altogether, it is a bit of a ragbag" - and only seemingly featuring dull wartime kettles it didn't really grab my interest. Consequently, there also being, unusually for a Tuesday evening, programes on other channels of more interest to me, I didn't bother to watch it. So was it worth investing being slumped in front of the box for a whole hour? G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted August 11, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 11, 2010 ........................ I didn't bother to watch it. So was it worth investing being slumped in front of the box for a whole hour? Well, I certainly enjoyed it. I have always found Dan Cruickshank's manner very engaging. Bear in mind, this sort of programme is for a general audience, so those of us who dismiss these type of series should perhaps invest in specific interest DVDs which would probably bore the pants off the average viewer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amdaley Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 I'd seen this episode on the Geographic channel earlier on in the year but enjoyed watching it again. Its not to technical being for a general audience & Cruikshank has an interesting way of presenting things. Looking forward to the next program. One thing as someone else mentioned,those adds kept breaking up the flow of it all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinkmouse Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Yes, light on detail for the real enthusiast, but still an enjoyable show. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Steven B Posted August 11, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 11, 2010 It didn't get a very good write up in the review I read - "presumably not enough stories to fill an hour", "some segments are merely flisy links to trains" and "altogether, it is a bit of a ragbag" - and only seemingly featuring dull wartime kettles it didn't really grab my interest. Consequently, there also being, unusually for a Tuesday evening, programes on other channels of more interest to me, I didn't bother to watch it. So was it worth investing being slumped in front of the box for a whole hour? A petrol powered Simplex made an appearence so it wasn't all steam trains! It wasn't a bad programme but most of the contents had been covered by other series (Coast for example with the listening stations and Mulbury Harbours and Pluto pipeline) but the "rescuing" of engineers from the western coast of France a few weeks after Dunkirk was something I'd not heard of before. One of the members of the Yorkshire Area Group of the N Gauge Society who works for the NRM makes an appearence in one of the other programmes in the series. Happy modelling, Steven B. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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